Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel, to put it bluntly, that we are being cheated." In developing this theme, Mr. Ross indulges in little special pleading for the known victims of what he calls "President Conant's slide-rule"--rather he looks into the future warning that "the elimination of an entire age group in the faculty is threatened--one which provides most of the experienced teaching available to undergraduates." While Mr. Ross devotes a good part of his analysis to this threat, he does not neglect other disturbing aspects of the administration's policy, including those he considers of less immediate concern...
...matters directly involving their responsibility to the future of the University as a whole--all the more, perhaps, because they have been pointedly reminded that "when a department makes recommendations to the Dean on matters of personnel it is not acting as a faculty committee but as an informal group to whom the administration has turned for advice." At the same time the majority of them believe Harvard College to be the vital core of Harvard University and accordingly feel a primary responsibility to the undergraduate body. Of necessity many are now deeply troubled on this score...
Progress of the experimental group was compared with the records made by a control group of 16 Freshmen, with admission records similar to those of the control group. The control group was given no special training. Comparison of Midyear with November grades showed that while ten students in the experimental group had better records, only five of the "control" group had made improvement...
Final eye movement records of the experimental group showed a fundamental change in reading habits, and also in reading attitude, it was reported last year. The students began for the first time to exercise control over the eye movements in reading. How permanent these changes will prove to be will quite certainly depend on the intentions of the learners and will, of course, vary with the individuals, it was said...
...eyes of the spectator are forced through the use of movies to follow the movements that a skillful reader's eyes would follow. The movie shows successive phrases flashed rapidly across and down the screen in such a way that the reader's eyes are involuntarily attracted to each group of words as it appears. Thus the student learns to read by phrases rather than single words...