Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enclosing illustrated cover of Sept. 19, 1927 issue along with the article that goes with it, thus destroying the continuity of my file. I would not care for this issue to appear in same...
...hour examinations as conducted at present cover the work done in a period of four or five weeks. In that time the student has adjusted himself to the mechanics of the course and little more. The actual knowledge he has assimilated or is even supposed to have assimilated is comparatively minute. The outcome is this: a man who is gifted with imaginative powers may write an examination which compares very favorably with that of a man who has done his work with regularity and precision. Both receive the same grade. That grade influences the mid-year or final mark...
Professor Eaton describes the tutorial and lecture systems as mutually interdependent, and would deplore the weakening of either. The pure lecture program gives the student only one form of expression for his ideas,--the written paper. The tutor cannot cover all the detail incidental to a full college course. The ideal solution is a combination of the two in which both written and verbal discussion of his field are available to the student...
...wallop off of such letters as the Alphabetical Englishman Dillington-Dowse - or whatever his name was -and the gentleman who entertains such supreme confidence in them all laying down sooner or later. May we not have more of such? A series of such letters compiled and issued under one cover might easily carry to posterity the same lessons as our generation may get from Plutarch's Lives. I maintain that this notion is not so farfetched...
...front cover...