Word: complexity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...well-rounded education, but such a curriculum cannot be imposed at the expense of interest and initiative. If general courses are to be retained, it must be with instructors who are at once anxious and able to teach and to provoke student thought. Theirs is a task infinitely more complex than that of the school-room lecturer, for they are initiating the student into a world full of contradictions and injustices, and in so doing are giving him a social viewpoint he will carry through Harvard into life. As the Freshman suffers, society later will suffer...
Issues. Politics in Florida are relatively simple. Whoever wins the Democratic nomination gets the job. The issues in the Florida primary race are not complex either. They are three...
When the campaign began, all three candidates by tacit consent tried to shun the one big State issue which might have made the campaign more complex: the trans-Florida ship canal, which north Florida wants, and south Florida fears. But by last week. Claude Pepper, deciding most of his votes will come from north Florida anyway, told citizens of that section he was strong for the canal, accused Messrs. Sholtz & Wilcox of "pussyfooting...
...Thurstone gave his 56 tests to 240 students whose I. Q.'s were above average. But when the students had answered the questions, Dr. Thurstone's work had only begun. He proceeded to compare, analyze and plot the scores, to sift out, with exceedingly complex mathematical formulae of his own invention, the separate mental abilities he had measured. He found seven: ability in 1) numbers, 2) words, 3) visual imagery, 4) memory, 5) perception, 6) induction (finding a rule governing a set of facts), 7) verbal reasoning. Dr. Thurstone also isolated two additional factors that he was unable...
...Yale is recognizing the importance of efficient advisers. The Carnegie Foundation has already emphasized the scarcity of intellectual guidance in modern education. With President Conant himself saying that "we need to have a corps of advisers who can give more time to the work and who can study the complex problems involved," it is right that Dean Leighton has made the first and worthy move toward remodeling Harvard's worst-fitting garment...