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Every ten years educators, parents, social workers, doctors gather in Washington for a check-up on the condition of U. S. children. President Theodore Roosevelt started it by calling the first White House Conference on children in 1909. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover followed suit in 1919 and 1930. Last week Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins rapped a gavel, called to order the fourth decennial White House Conference on Children in a Democracy...
...intellectual role of college students become that it takes considerable effort to jar them out of the well-marked grooves in which they slide along and to force them to do independent thinking . . . Fed several times daily on a diet of formal lectures, prodded by quizzes and factual check-up tests to take every forward step, many undergraduates lose all power of self-starting merely through lack of either the opportunity or the incentive to develop that power...
...place of these exams. Certainly the only excuse for "hour troubles" is the necessity for a half-semester grade for Freshmen, since an essay on a small subject would be an incomplete test. And yet a great many advanced courses have hour-exams which are merely an unnecessary check-up at a time when an essay would determine the student's real ability much more clearly. There are, however, certain drawbacks in assigning written papers instead of giving tests in class, and these will be discussed in the two editorials to follow...
...first look at the sports situation. All Freshmen are required to exercise three times a week, and they must do something organized and something upon which there is a check made. Wrestling with your roommate, for example, is exercise all right, but it just won't do for the check...
Three years age the Housing Association prepared a report listing all buildings needing major repairs or demolition. Under the leadership of David R. Lit '38, the Housing Committee will conduct a check-up to determine whether these buildings have been demolished, repaired or left untouched...