Word: gales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...changes, strove to foresee what further excursions, alarms, awaited their University. Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School since 1916, had been elected President of the University of Wisconsin, promised a salary of from $12,000 to $15,000 a year. He, after a conference with Miss Zona Gale, playwright member of a special Wisconsin committee, accepted the post. It is expected that he will remove to Wisconsin when President R. A. Birge, after over 50 years of service in that University, retires at the end of this year...
...esteemed contemporary, the Harvard CRIMSON, had a reporter who was lucky to talk with Miss Zona Gale. We do not know what he said, but we have her reported words, words that many alumni and undergraduates will inscribe upon the tablets of their hearts. "I do not believe in examinations," said Miss Gale. "They ought to be abolished." They certainly ought, for no doubt the examinations of today are as pestiferous as those of years ago. They are a cruel formality devised for the torture of ardent young souls whose message is that of bigness and brightness to a stodgy...
...Miss Gale seems inclined to substitute class discussion for examinations. There is much to be said for this idea; it is about time that the principle of the witenagemot be introduced into the class-room. Relations between instructors and students should be cosier and more chatty. The human touch should be felt even in analytic chemistry and Romance philology. But with all the good will in the world we must point out that if there be class discussion, undergraduates must attend classes, and that will interfere very much with their more serious activities. But this is mere criticism. What will...
...from liberal undergraduate opinion to take issue with Zona Gale upon the faults and fallacies of education by examination. At this period of the year the evils of examinations seem hugely disproportionate to the good, and the mob impulse lurking even in indifferent Harvard breasts surges forth to cry "Down with 'em!" at the first sign of a leader...
...alas for disillusioned hope! Zona Gale might have been acclaimed the new liberal leader, had it not been for her speech at the Old South Forum. Her views on censorship are broad enough; it isn't that. She called censorship "un-American", and that was too much. Even liberals, though they turn their backs on the past, have not entirely forgotten the rudiments of American history...