Word: governance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significant report on "The Teaching of English in England" prepared by Sir Henry Newbolt's Committee and sponsored by the British government, it is interesting to note how much emphasis is laid on the problem of devising examinations in English that shall serve adequately as tests of achievement and as educational stimuli. A rereading of those trenchant paragraphs and a survey of examining processes here in American schools have prompted the Commission to consider in some detail the educational value that examinations may have in secondary-school English curricula. In this section are recorded some of the results of this...
...lectures drawn from a first-hand knowledge of over 40 secondary schools in England and on the continent, attempting to set forth in brief compass their existing principles and practices. "Studies and Tests on Virgil's Aeneid" involves an application to the teaching of Latin of the principles which govern the making of objective tests, and not only provides the teacher with material for a general Latin survey, but aids the student to gain a full appreciation of the poem. In "Curriculum Problems of Industrial Education," the educator faces the inaccuracies and inadequacies of contemporary industrial-trained programs, devised...
...taken at the beginning of a business or professional career is often irremediable. To prevent such mistakes is the task of the graduate advisers. They are in no sense to be considered employment agencies, but they can render signal service by informing the young engineers of the conditions that govern both the practical features of the profession, and the geographical territories in which they wish to practice...
...cast aside as mere puppets. But we must bear in mind that Mr. Bynner is first of all a poet, and although he has his own peculiar sense of the theater, it will be well for his auditors to bear in mind that the poet is here speaking, and govern their reactions accordingly...
Whether or not this is a desirable trend may be a debatable question, but the Harvard student body seems to have a way of going about its own business, regardless of the devices and desires of the authorities, who, theoretically, govern its destinies. Certainly the house plan has not as yet produced any great modification of Harvard life, and it looks as though the celebrated indifference of the bright young men of Cambridge might be the immovable body against which the forces of innovation and experiment will dash themselves in vain