Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appear once more. During a session with the machine, the student must translate each sentence twice. The machine, Skinner claims, is relatively cheat-proof because a teacher can check the answers on the paper with the mark the machine has registered. There would also be a phonograph for dictation drill...
Just yesterday I saw Grace herself at the lifeboat drill. There were 250 of us in her boat which has a capacity of 150. Isn't that just cuddlesome...
Company K was a sardonic minor masterpiece of World War I-a painful punishment drill in the doorless barracks of total recall. Its author, William March, died two years ago at 60. almost unregarded-before his Bad Seed, a tale designed to prove that even children may have murder in their hearts, became a bestseller and a Broadway hit. Now TV's Alistair Cooke, U.S. correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, with a governess' concern to see that U.S. cultural toddlers are cozily wrapped, undertakes the task of explaining March to American readers. Cooke makes a sound observation: March...
Without required attendance at morning8Although M.I.T.'s "educate the whole man" policy has many facets, three of these are depicted above. To the left, the Institute's AFROTC cadets develop the military sides of their natures at Monday afternoon drill in the armory on Mass. Ave. A ROTC course is required for the first two years at M.I.T. In the center, however, a Tech student seems to be concentrating on the girls rather than on building a strong body to please the Administration. To the right, M.I.T. students find time to relax and "learn from each other" after a Meal...
...Although drill is conducted on standards of regimentation and discipline, many of the classes are conducted like normal college sections. Sergeants, while not speaking like English professors, are extremely able to get their material across in their own peculiar language. It is very Army. And the teaching officers, although they have different standards than a Philosophy lecturer, know the West Point gospel well. The unit's military personnel tries to turn out soldiers. The University is interested in scholars. Everyone in the corps is aware of the difference. It is accepted just as the uniforms...