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...Homework. In Topeka, Kans., Dog-catcher Arland Smith, asked by Washburn University biologists for some fleas, hunted and hunted in his dog pound, found not a one, went home and searched...
...spare moments between the hottest fighting on Guadalcanal, about 40 U.S. servicemen swatted mosquitoes, sweated over correspondence-school lessons. When they had done their homework, they mailed it to the University of Hawaii, a branch of Usafi (U.S. Armed Forces Institute). Last week the number of fighting men taking correspondence courses from Usafi was not far from 30,000, more than half of them overseas...
...Jersey's Governor Edison wanted a man capable of such "a vigorous leadership, as befits these new times." There was little in the record to suggest that Studebaker would be more radical than his dictum that one hour homework nightly is plenty for children. It looked as though Governor Edison would get the man he wanted - if Boss Hague could not prevent...
...course grade are usually one and the same. There is some attempt to count class recitation, but the professors themselves admit this is slightly hopeless. The classes are so large and the material so vast that very few students get called on more than twice a term. Labs and homework are nothing more than borderline factors. Consequently, the student goes into finals realizing that everything depends on his performance. If he happens to miss the point of the case, his Low Pass is almost inevitable, regardless of his previous showing in class discussions or homework...
...tests them in mathematics, electricity, shop practice, radio; those who pass get ratings (radioman, second or third class), are shipped to W9XBK. They live at the Naval Armory, half a mile away, work nine hours, six days a week, five hours on Sundays, cram in another two hours of "homework" nightly...