Word: corrector
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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...
...limited space of time results in superficiality, the greater evil of the two. The final upshot is that the decision of whether the student has a thorough knowledge of his subject or else is merely slipping through on a wide but varied acquaintance with the questions rests upon the corrector, a situation that is distinctly unfortunate...
...errors of his youth, but that his handwriting is still abominable. Hence he indulges in some excusable sarcasm on a typewriter, at the expense of the "Committee on the Use of English by Students". Many men have been warned because of mistakes in grammar reported by some examination corrector in their freshman year...