Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor General. Chief credit for the astute political move went to Timothy Healy, Free State Governor General. "Tim" as he was known in the old days at Westminster, is one of the cleverest as well as one of the most vituperative politicians alive, whereas most af the Free State's political talent is young and relatively inexperienced. With almost certain defeat staring Mr. Cosgrave in the face, the Governor General would certainly point out the advantages of taking the decisive step of forcing the parties into a new contest, now that the country is believed to be well aroused...
Economic Conditions: Irishmen assert that there has not been a major political issue since the settlement of the Irish boundary dispute (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925). The problems and difficulties have mostly been economic. Taxation remains higher than in England; agriculture has been depressed by bad conditions and poor credit; industry suffers from competition in Britain and Northern Ireland and clamors for protection, which, it points out, would ease unemployment...
...wants, and no doubt needs, a very low money market in this country so that American bank funds in large totals may be' attracted to England; and to that end our re-discount rates are to be reduced, and probably Federal Reserve securities are to be sold, and easy credit is to be manufactured...
...proposition that colleges will get nowhere while they work on "the assumption that the majority of students come to our colleges to resist education." Whether that assumption arises from or determines the undergraduate attitude, the fact remains that there is a game of student v. instructor, learning v. credits. This game would stop and the players either go home or work seriously, thinks President Mason, if comprehensive examinations were substituted for the present credit system wherein each course passed, each "credit" won, is an integer in the formula of "Success." President Mason went so far as to hint that...
...credit" system is the object of a particularly pointed attack by Dr. William Setchel Learned of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in a paper on "The Quality of the Educational Process in the United States and in Europe" in the Foundation's current bulletin. Dr. Learned contrasts the disciplined convergence upon a single field, in European scholarship, with the dissipation of energy and attention permitted in U. S. classrooms, where Humorist Stephen Leacock pretended to find a student "taking Turkish, music and architecture not because he meant to be choirmaster in a Turkish cathedral but because...