Word: expections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...determine whether that extension should introduce any new features. Should scholastic standing be based not only upon course grades, but also upon work completed under tutorial guidance? If tutorial work were definitely taken into account at the college office in the reckoning of a student's rank, we should expect, for psychological reasons, a stimulation of interest in that work. Does this mean that course study would be unduly neglected? That would naturally depend upon the relative importance of the two phases of study...
...progress. The proposed separation of emphasis would not seem to provide a method of ranking on the whole less arbitrary than the present method. Nevertheless if tutorial reports used the terms, "satisfactory," "barely satisfactory," and "unsatisfactory," in place of "A's," "B's," "C's," etc., we should expect a more natural system of grading. With this arrangement it seems logical that tutorial work should count as part of the basis for scholastic standing...
...devoted to advanced study in some part of his field. During this year he will work on the same plane as the graduate student. He will be allowed to take any courses that he desires. He will work intensively with his tutor, who will give regular assignments and expect written reports. He will present a thesis on a subject from this field of specialization, and this thesis will be of the quality now expected only from graduate students. Finally he will be required to take an oral examination, more searching than is now given to candidates for distinction. The degree...
Recompense. Robert Keable's novel has thus been canned in strips. It makes inferior fare. Monte Blue, the actor whose face is so soft you expect it to melt any moment, is the chaplain who tore off his white collar and went to war. Later-to Africa in the wool business-injured-back to London. On convenient pretext, the girl is introduced at every episode. One can afford to be distant both to her and to her story...
...practice when the team enters at 3 o'clock this afternoon upon the official spring drill. The squad which will take part in the three weeks' intensive workout will leave the playing fields where it has been working for the Stadium. Coach Fisher has called out all men who expect to be candidates next fall...