Word: corrector
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latter card will be an interesting test of the corrector's ability to judge impartially. It may be that on receipt of his post card, with another added for good measure from University Hall, the southern vacationer will find himself free to continue studying history for the rest of the year in Palm Beach...
...great need, as any corrector of examinations will assert with great fervour, is to teach students to organize ideas, to write with reasonable lucidity. Reading, of course, is necessary, but it should be strictly subordinated to composition. In the first semester in particular, it would be helpful to read fine models, such, for example, a chapter in Travelyan's "History of England", do a little correlated reading in the library, and then rewrite a chapter, not with the intention of aping the style, but with an eye to clear, precise, and thoroughly readable presentation of facts...
Neither did University Hall make clear whether the "speech corrector's" son had met the child of the "furniture dealer", nor whether contact had been established between the aviator and the gas station attendant...
...sufficient length of time for an intelligent discussion of the work done during the reading period. Involving a variety of choices as it does, the question must be general in its phrasing, but the student has to content himself with jotting down enough facts and quotations to convince the corrector that he has done his work. There is little opportunity for the working out of a thoughtful summary of the reading along the lines of one's own intellect, which the reading period ought to encourage...
...give written examinations a decreasingly important place in education. That is as it should be, for memory is only the ash that is left after enthusiasm and analysis have burned a path into uncharted realms; and written examinations depend too much on the moods of the student and the corrector to be left in college education much longer...