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have no defined meaning. To reply that a given symbol signifies a cer- 

 tain per cent, of an undefined something is to beg the question. The 

 administration of the curriculum on a percentage basis — giving grade 

 B in Greek, for example, a value of 80 to 90 per cent. — is apparently 

 exact, but in reality far from it. 



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Highest Grades — Conditions — 



We have here used the statistics of institutions which do not attempt 

 to grade students in many groups. The usual school method of grading 

 on a one-hundred-per-cent. basis produces confusion. As a matter of 

 fact, teachers can not use more than a dozen grades with discrimination. 



