| Summary: | book n Promotion in the early grades seems to have been based, not on formal examinations, but on the teacher's knowledge of the pupil. One woman recalled going home and telling her father: "I'm through me book." "No one was in a grade in those days", said another informant. If asked the extent of his education, a fisherman in the sixty-plus age group will likely say: "I was in number three", or "I got to number three." DNE-cit W. J. KIRWIN MAR 1973 JH MAR 1973 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Used I
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