Word: exhibitions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Documents and other evidence thus collected enabled the Polizei to announce proudly that they had nipped a most elaborate Monarchist Putsch. "Exhibit A" was a large autographed portrait of Wilhelm of Doorn, with a note of glowing encouragement attached...
Every May it reappears on professors lips. But after stating in cold blood that they are required to cover the whole course with their final test, the instructors proceed to exhibit the ingenuity with which they are in the habit of rendering the requirement innocuous. Most often they leave the matter with the statement that students need only review the outline of the first semester's work; and on the examination day the students are delighted to find that even that was unnecessary. Many other professors, however, circumvent the rule by designating with exactness what section of the work before...
...like Topsy, just grows. It is to enter a field of progress more fundamental than pedagogical reform or curricula revision, but unfortunately not so well known. Men now juggle the mechanical details of education with some confidence. When, however, they enter with dogma into the realm of psychology, they exhibit the daring of folly. Freud is in part a fallen idol of the subjective psychologists; while the Behaviorists deprecate his whole doctrine. Scholars agree only upon their own ignorance...
Dabbling in Pascal* the other day, I ran across a few lines that recalled strikingly a paragraph you published under SCIENCE some nine months ago: "But to exhibit to him another wonder quite as amazing, let him examine the most minute things he knows. . . . Dividing these again, let him exhaust his power of forming such conceptions, and then let us consider the last, the least object at which he can arrive. Perhaps he will think that it is the limit of littleness in nature. But I will show him a new abyss. I will paint for him not only...
...Test. An exhibit showed the high accuracy of a Russian test for determining, from a drop of blood or sap, an organism's sex. In nearly every case, the female was chemically more active than the male...