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In setting a "critical grade" between the promising and the less promising, President Conant said that subject matter is of little importance, the examination level and the intrinsic capacity of the student, whose intellectual places in the world are predestined at least by the time they enter college, being the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SELECTIVE PRINCIPLE | 1/15/1937 | See Source »

The reasons for the discontinuance of the group are plain. "It really couldn't go on", explains one of its former members, "because it had no intrinsic value. If we continued, there would have been hundreds of other diverse forms and principles, which would have tangled us up. At Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quick Demise of Veterans of Future Wars Accounted For by Lack of Intrinsic Value, and Impossibility of Their Objective | 12/17/1936 | See Source »

Of more value even than the intrinsic subject of the group, the leader of a boys' club teaches self-control and good sportsmanship.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEED SOCIAL WORKERS FOR PHILLIPS BROOKS | 12/4/1936 | See Source »

But the prime reason for returning blue books to whoever wants them, is that only by seeing what he has done wrong in the past, can a student hope to improve his examination technique in the future. Except for senior divisionals, the intrinsic meaning of an examination is not a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLUE BOOK BLUES | 11/21/1936 | See Source »

Details of all this came vividly to light for the first time last week when a Tokyo court martial took up the famed case of Samurai Son Aizawa (TIME, Aug. 26). His defense was that General Nagata had been a friend of Japanese Government "bureaucrats," politicians, businessmen and other chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Blood & Tears | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

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