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Word: examinee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Astronomy receives the most attention in the eighth grade. Basic scientific concepts of space and time are presented, and the student's idea of time as something on a wristwatch is shaken when the teacher forces him to examine what he actually means by a "year." He begins to think...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: New York's Walden School Tests New Science Teaching Methods | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

By this time the Walden students have grasped much of what is involved in the shape of the earth, and in the late winter they begin learning about what it is composed of. Ideas about the different states of matter are presented, and they begin to examine about twenty key...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: New York's Walden School Tests New Science Teaching Methods | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

The previous year's chemistry is developed still further and simple three-element compounds are learned, like silicates, carbonates, acids, bases, and salts, and thus they are able to examine what happened as the earth cooled and the rocks were formed.

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: New York's Walden School Tests New Science Teaching Methods | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

But even now it is clear that all the students are quite excited about science and are going out and buying telescopes or constructing homemade instruments of one sort or another. And the kids interested in science do not scorn history, nor are they likely to concentrate on only one...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: New York's Walden School Tests New Science Teaching Methods | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

Expansion threatened a bigger, more impersonal College, and one way the Administration hoped to deal with this danger was by a strengthening of the House system. One method would be to reduce overcrowding, and figures like Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, insisted that overcrowding should be reduced before...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: The Four Years of '58 | 6/11/1958 | See Source »

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