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...second grade the Soviet student doubles his reading vocabulary to 4,000 words. In third grade he hits 8,000 words with a formidable reader of 384 pages. The paper is cheap; the prose is rich. A third-grader studies the origin of everything from rivers and steel to frogs and wind. Anatomy and medicine are introduced with an adult description of bones, muscles, lungs, heart, ear, contagious diseases and six bacteria, all illustrated. Throughout the reader are stories by first-rate authors-Chekhov, Turgenev, Gorky...
Blond, brawny (6 ft. 2 in., 215 Ibs.) Paul Hornung played his first regular football game as a sixth-grader at Louisville's St. Patrick's School. Awarded an athletic scholarship to Notre Dame, Hornung quickly caught the eye of canny Coach Frank Leahy. "He runs like a mower going through grass," marveled Leahy. "And his kicking-why, when he reported to me as a freshman, he could punt 80 yds. and place-kick over the crossbar from...
...large lecture course, students ordinarily lack access to the Great Man, who is busy with his own scholarship. But for most undergraduates, talking with interested graders and section men would prove no less valuable. Thus one immediately practicable way to restore the educational dialogue in the large, upper-level lecture course is to have more graders; two graders for a lecture course of 200 is not sufficient for the kind of continuous interaction described here. The problem is more than one of more men and more money, hjowever. Graders in courses without sections must be encouraged to conceive of their...
...graders like David Littlejohn have said, talking about a paper before writing it, especially in the case of longer papers, can help the student to find a subject that will genuinely appeal to him and engage his interest. The grader can often suggest new and fresh ways of treating material...
Here again it is plain that the assigning of one long term paper to be handed in at the end of a course, militates against any kind of worthwhile communication and instruction. Dividing the paper work through the course of the term would, incidentally, relieve the burden of the grader in reading hundreds of final examinations and term papers at the end.1