Word: contents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obscure the realities of learning by inducing a false and perfunctory interest in the accumulation of marks for courses? And why insist that group teaching shall be done in units of uniform length? Let the clever teacher go on teaching groups--i.e., giving courses--but let the content of the course and the known abilities of the students dictate the duration of the teaching. The course has hampered the development of good teaching by robbing it of freedom and flexibility...
...gallery of a theatre and threw handfuls of lemons, oranges and grapefruit at the stage, he would no doubt be ejected by the police. But if there existed no scales on which to weigh lemons, oranges and grapefruit, the police would doubtless let him throw to his heart's content. Thrown with equal force, the lemons would hit players, the oranges would land in the orchestra pit, the grapefruit on the heads of $5.50 seat-holders. Then Dr. Bainbridge could measure the distance between a grapefruit-splashed spectator and an orange-struck piccolo player, between piccolo player and comedian...
This evening at 7.30 o'clock in the New Athletic Building the 1935 basketball team will take on the Dartmouth Freshman five, with the Harvard five fresh from a 26 to 12 loan to Worcestor Academy, which easily took last Wednesday's content...
...Vice-Presidency at its San Francisco convention after Alfred Emanuel Smith had seconded his name. With Presidential Nominee Cox, he campaigned strenuously about the country, took his inevitable defeat with good grace. Then he got out to look for a new job. The pickings were poor. He had to content himself with the vice-presidency of Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland, an insurance company run by the late Publisher Van Lear Black. In August 1921 he and his family embarked on Van Lear Black's yacht for their summer home at Campobello Island, N. B. Shortly after they arrived...
...from Tokyo they threatened to close their mills last week, throw 70,000 Chinese out of work. A group of worried Chinese merchants last week called on Mayor Wu Teh-chen, begged him to disown the boycott society. Chinese, they slyly added, could still boycott to their heart's content, privately. Meanwhile, Mayor Wu temporized, Chinese troops began barricading the city, the Japanese marines fretted aboard their warships, eager to get ashore and have some...