Word: finalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Observers felt that M. Trotzky had given the Soviet regime a final black eye before the world by insisting on just those "orthodox" Communist policies of impractical violence and "world revolution" which the shrewd Josef Stalin is seeking to hold in check...
Near the entrance, also on the main floor, a small accessions room is pro- vided in which new material may be shown before its final placement in the collection. To the rear are the library and photographic rooms, in both of which the stacks, offices, and store rooms are supplemented by additional space in the basement. There is still space for 60,000 books and 80,000 photographs
...Sciences on March 2. The reading periods involve the curtailment of actual teaching by members of the Faculty from the present 31 week period to a 25 week limit, by the cessation of lecture instruction for two and a half weeks before midyear examinations and three weeks before final examinations...
...future is to receive greater encouragement, but the very fact that it is independent wil make it more imperative that it be very carefully examined at the end of the reading period. A professor in charge of a course should, therefore, provide that in his mid-year and final examinataions a considerable part be devoted to the work which was to be done in the period of unsupervised instruction...
...plan would serve two further ends: It would discourage parrotlike repetition in examinations of facts heard in lectures, and would encourage the more able students to higher efforts. It is, of course, understood that the mid- year and final examinations would demand thorough knowledge of the work in the lecture periods...