Word: finalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another interesting innovation is about to be tested in the field of education. Harvard university, if is believed, is considering a plan whereby classes and lectures will be suspended for a period of several weeks before mid-year and final examinations. Such a move is designed primarily to give students additional time for personal investigation as well as more chance to prepare for finals...
...respite is hoped to afford as much relief to the instructors as the students since at the present time the fortnight just previous to the final examinations is crowded with thesis reading and details incident to closing up a college semester. It will also cut down the length of time taken up by formal teaching and permit the members of the Faculty to study write and to research work...
...freeing the student from minute supervision of their studies and by relieving the teacher of an eleventh hour burden of semester reviewing, it is expected that the final results shown in examinations will represent and earnest effort on the part of the student, who may apportion the time to his own best advantage without the irritating necessity of preparing last minute reports and attending detailed reviews in subjects on which he is already well informed. Assignments of reading pertaining to each course will constitute the sole mechanical requirement of the plan but these will not be of so strenuous...
...Thomas Woodnutt Miller was guilty of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. Government. But 70* hours of argument and sleep under lock and key had failed to produce a verdict on onetime (1921-24) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty, who was closely linked with the alien property fraud. The final vote of the jurors was eleven to one for conviction of Mr. Daugherty...
...Frederick Mills, Chairman of the Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron & Coal Co. Ltd., issued a final dire statement: "Nineteen bodies have been recovered. The gas has been pumped out and rescue work is going on; but I can see no hope that the 32 men still trapped underground remain alive...