Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea before it was decided upon, Dean Hanford said in a recent number of the Advocate: "Notwithstanding the work of the Freshman advisers and instructors in elementary courses, there are always a number of willing and capable students who find the first few months of college very difficult, who fail to plan their time properly, do not know how to take notes or to study effectively and finding themselves groping in the dark and becoming discouraged. Oftentimes a suggestion or two will set such a student back on the right track. In many cases the suggestion will come from...
...this respect," the editorial remarked. But, it continued, "In view of the fact that daily tests and examinations are peculiar to college life, cheating under these circumstances becomes a local problem. It is not safe to assume that a man who cheats in them will inevitably fail in future trials of his honesty...
...better I know this last stretch will be the biggest fright of my life. . . . Oh, you don't know that forlorn feeling-above you, a grim black sky; underneath, the revolving sea, and you are quite alone in a frail machine, every moment fearing that the motor will fail and you will have to face calamity. No, no-never again...
...also points to the weakness of the present language requirements, which cause "reading knowledge" to be interpreted as the result of two years of passing work in a language in college, in courses which are necessarily elementary and non-cultural, and generally boring. As long as preparatory schools fail to cover the ground of elementary lingual preparation, and as long as the College retains its demand for "reading knowledge" of this sort, elementary language courses will continue to eat into student time. Alteration in the two conditions must go hand in hand, but the College has the power to take...
...course attempting to give an intelligent appreciation of approximately fifteen centuries of the world's most fertile artistic production in less than fifteen weeks must fail. It is not the fault of the instructors who must present this mass of material. In order to include even the outstanding artistic works of this period they are forced to require their students to absorb such a large list of names and facts that it would be impossible to expect any intelligent assimilation or appreciation...