Word: experimentally
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The student tests, on which the Contests are based, are similar to the TIME News Quizzes which appear in the magazine. The Contest itself was first tried as an experiment in 18 preparatory schools in 1936. (A sample question 'on National Affairs was this: "The soldiers' bonus will...
Such a plan, and a good one, is the Committee's proposal to admit a few exceptional students after three years of secondary school. The senior year in school is often un-stimulating, a duplication of work to come later in college. The only argument against these early admissions is...
Worst of all, the reluctant strongman's experiment in democracy had come a cropper. Four years ago Shishekly seized power, ending the series of coups that had produced 16 governments in the first three years of Syrian independence from French rule. He did not want to be a man...
¶Sparked by the Ford Foundation, Arkansas started a "bold new experiment" in teacher training two years ago, now has 15 colleges in the state participating. The idea is to persuade students to go into teaching by giving them four years of the liberal arts plus a fifth year of...
Justice Brandeis once called the states a laboratory for legislation. New York's proposed code of fair investigative practices is just the kind of experiment the Justice must have had in mind. If passed, it can provide a working model for Congress and the states to examine, and perhaps, to...