Word: elementally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present preparation for the divisional examinations is so scanty that the marking standard is necessarily too low in order that a fair number of candidates may be passed. This introduces into the examination an extra element of luck, which would be eliminated if the candidates were expected to be adequately prepared. With this method, the number of men who get by without having the minimum of knowledge which should be required would be less than...
...office, or they may be men with incomplete college education who are compelled to obtain professional training in less time than the regular students give. These specials are always fewer in number than the regular students; but those of them who have had an office training introduce an important element into the school, because their practical experience has given them a facility in drawing which some of the regular students do not attain in the earlier years of their work in the school; and the older special students are likely to be serious students and hard workers. The standards...
...Arlington Theatre. It is not surprising that such a story, written with consummate insight into a child's heart and a young girl's romance, continues to be popular, both in book form and on the stage. One's interest is held to the final curtain by the element of mystery provided by Judy's ignorance as to the identity of her guardian. The "happy ending" which comes when Judy's benefactor and devoted lover prove to be one and the same person furnishes a pleasing conclusion to the play...
...imaginative piece of astronomical knowledge applied to journalism. It has not enough suspense to hold the attention as a story, but it has enough science to hold the scientifically curious. What would happen if an asteroid should drop in the Atlantic eleven hundred miles east of Boston? The love element is an irritating non-essential; the suspense created as to "the great disaster" is killed almost at once by the idea of triviality caused by the thirty-minute conversation before the all-important question is asked and answered...
...result has been that the Advocate has forgotten that it is and must be an undergraduate publication; that it must be a medium of expression of the more active intellectual element of the college rather than the element which is merely intellectual without being active...