Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...underworld gangs of Chicago, which have come in for so much newspaper comment and publicity in the past few months, are now put between the covers of a novel, and furnish such good entertainment, apparently, that they are the selection of the Literary Guild for their readers in the month of June. "Little Caesar", the first novel of W. R. Burnett, published by the Dial Press, is the new Baedeker to gangland, drawing chiefly on the shady side of the night clubs for its material...
...result and is not a basic evil. Were there no opportunities for the crammer to succeed, this type of last minute study would vanish. This brings us to a consideration of school practice, with particular reference to the examination. It has been said that an examination is good, only when it is the best teaching device available at that particular time. Its function should be to point out when teaching has not taken effect, in order that remedial exercises may be applied. It should not be used as a device for finding out what a student knows, or does...
...take any examinations. In short they will be allowed to follow the intellectual life at Dartmouth as they see fit. This would be the ideal in education, but unfortunately few students would be strong enough to follow that plan and get anything from their university life other than a good time...
...leadership in its various enterprises, is going by the board together with other old Yale traditions, and that Senior social groups are being formed, based on Fraternity acquaintanceship and Fraternity voting strength, resulting in an entirely new Senior Society tradition. If this is to be the case, well and good: our point is that the Senior Societies should frankly admit it and not sail under discarded colors...
...need of 1917 melodramatic chauvinism has vanished with the peace of 1918, and the binding of international good-will has rendered unnecessary any further reminders of war-time animosity. If the Sargent murals ever had a purpose, it has been rendered a nullity by universal misconception and unsatisfied curiosity. J. H. Selvidge...