Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purpose to argue the relative merits of various fishing spots on the Texas coast. They are all good. It is our hope, however, that you will print this letter to correct an entirely erroneous impression that the casual reader might form of fishing on the coast of the Port Isabel-Brownsville section, so that justice may be done...
...correct answer to this rhetorical question is, of course, No. Had the South voted solidly for Hoover in 1932, for Landon in 1936, Franklin Roosevelt would still have been elected in each year by a big margin...
...matter of course and lamented that there was hot a more equal system of marking. But one genius came through with a suggestion: that each student be given a secret number, which he put on his paper, which, in turn, is handed to a different section man to correct each question. The students all suffer equally from the hard markers and benefit alike from the easy ones...
...course it would have to be developed further, because with all the questions written in the same ink and in the same handwriting, the different section men would not know which one they were expected to correct. There are two remedies for this, which should both be used in order to leave no loopholes...
First, the efforts of the various instructors should be directed toward the field in which they are most qualified. In that way the same man would correct the same question all the way through. Every student would be judged from the same standards, whether they be strict or lenient...