Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good examinations are a test of comprehension of material. Comprehension does not mean the ability to bounce back a list of facts or a memorized theory, but rather the ability to put the facts together or work the theory into a meaningful picture. How test this true comprehension? By requiring original thought based on the material, by requiring a variety of interpretations of the facts...
...takes a good, solid knowledge of the material to juggle it around dexterously. It requires mulling over and assimilating beforehand. The man who has spent a few nightmare hours cramming at Parker-Cramer's knows most of the essential facts. He has even had a stock interpretation of the facts handed down to him. But he cannot twist this interpretation around to answer questions shot from unexpected angles. So he resorts to building a weak bridge from the question to his stock answer, and then proceeds to pour out what he has memorized. In effect he evades the question...
...tutoring schools have been reaping a good income by spotting passages or French students. According to reports, the most active offender is William Sharpe of Parker-Cramer tutors, who has also been spotting sight passages for other tutoring schools for the fast few years...
Homer gained popularity, and justly so, because of his unusual technical facility, and his paintings prove him to be a fine craftsman. Really good art, however, does not consist in mere excellence of handling a give medium. Homer uses color well, and his paintings are beautiful, but there is no mark of actual and reverberating content in his work. Marin, on the other hand, with his contrapuntal placement of emphatic colors, arrives at an emotional shorthand which leads him to pointed interpretations of scenes and aspects of nature. His "Mt. Chocorua" exemplifies this phase of his painting and also serves...
...Crimson club, however, led by Mike Rice, Lea Pitchford, and Ed Buckley, seems to have too much balance and batting punch for the dangerous Elis. The Blue first year men have had a good season, but they fell before Andover, while the Crimson later stopped the winning streak of the Royal Blue and beat them...