Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colleges, Professor Rogers said, "worshipped marks", but he added that an A.B. degree merely indicated that the student had agreed with his professors during his four years at school, Grades make a battleground of the classroom, he said, and are a "disgrace to scientific education and must be done away with...
Dean Holmes pointed to a study made in 1913 by the Graduate School of Education on the teaching of Economics in the University, as evidence of the work that has been done here to investigate methods of grading...
Last summer at Camp Morgan (Y. M. C. A.), near Washington, N. H., the old sanitation unit suddenly became a menacing plague spot. Some 100 boys at the camp were threatened with infection. What was to be done? An ingenious, tinkering counsellor, one Gordon Russell Whittum of Worcester, Mass., hurriedly destroyed the old unit, upon a concrete base built a clean, self-sanitizing latrine...
...Fairchild camera last week observed the remains of three Mayan cities and traces of a fourth. Dr. Alfred Vincent Kidder of the Carnegie Institution, who accompanied them, declared gratefully that they had accomplished more exploratory work in 25 hours of flying than a ground party could have done in five years of plodding...
...gown. With the industrial development of many university towns, there has inevitably sprung up a good deal of competition for favorable land sites. That the university should have the advantage of tax-exemption in all cases has seemed to some an anachronism which long since should have been done away with. The advantages which the town receives from having the university within its limits are universally recognized, but that they more than compensate for the loss of tax money on land of ever increasing value would be impossible to demonstrate. There must necessarily be a limit to the applicability...