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Under the present arrangement French 2 undertakes to teach literal translation of plays, rapid reading of classics, French composition, and a history of French literature of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The aims of the course are far too extensive; consequently the material is presented in a haphazard fashion by men who being aware of the weaknesses and elementary character of the course, are not much more anxious to teach than their students to learn. Nor does French 2 prepare a student to do any of the specific reading which may be required of him later in history, government...
...educational point of view, the Foundation's criticism of the two chief methods of determining college admissions (certification and examination) can hardly be refuted. Certification, used in 90 per cent of American colleges, permits too much leeway to be any accurate standard. Little account is taken of the frequently haphazard or outdated school courses, and there have also been more than a few cases of kind schoolmasters padding a student's grade. The Old Plan examination method of the oldest and best-known American universities depends too much on the chance that the pupil will have the ideal combination...
...sanctity of the principles upon which this Republic has grown great. ... As a nation we are undefeated and unafraid (Real applause). . . . Democracy & Demagogs. "Our interest now is in the future. . . . We still have much to do. ... The solution of our many problems is not to be found in haphazard experimentation.* ... It does not follow . . . that we must turn to a State controlled or State-directed system to cure our troubles. That is not liberalism; that is tyranny. . . . Ofttimes the tendency of democracy in the presence of national danger is to strike blindly, to listen to demagogs and to slogans...
...president had met last month to choose one, they would surely not have chosen Groucho Marx. He lacks the manner, the appearance, the erudition proper to the post. Nonetheless, at the beginning of Horse Feathers (Paramount) it becomes clear that the trustees of Huxley College have been so haphazard as to select Groucho. thinly disguised under the pseudonym of Professor Wagstaff, for this honor. He is discovered on a rostrum, where the retiring president of Huxley is addressing the faculty and student body. Attired in a mortar board, with a tailcoat over his arm, Groucho is shaving his false mustache...
...trying to teach officials of the various communities that the regulation of street traffic for promoting efficiency and safety is one of the most important problems that they have to face and is not to be despatched in a haphazard way but should be put in the charge of a paid city official," Miller McClintock, lecturer in Government, said yesterday in describing the work of the Albert Russell Erakine Bureau for Street Traffic Research of which he is the Director...