Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour exams have been failing as this yardstick, however. They are the bluebooks that the student finds with a single big letter grade serawled on their cover, and no other comment. No exam really helps the student to learn unless he knows what he did wrong; a grade and a line of cryptic figures written on the inside cover are not constructive criticism. Despite their tremendous pressure for time, graders should comment on exams--telling students what they have done wrong and how they can tackle their errors. Coupled with expanded office hours and discussion in sections,--History 61 holds...
...building will be low and angular; this is nothing new to those who know Mr. Wright's work. The most important and interesting part of any theater, however, is the stage. In this case the stage juts out into the orchestra in a large semicircular form, reminiscent of the Grecian theater. Thus actors and audience are brought into more intimate contact than is possible with the present "picture frame stage...
Hindemith believes that composers are generally the best teachers of composition. "If you want to know how to design a bridge, you get an engineer to tell you." More than this, he thinks that composers should teach, not only as a means of support, but as a responsibility to future generations of musicians. "Since Bach," he says, "hardly any of the great composers have been outstanding teachers. Today, when there is a general lack of skill in the technique of composition, no composer should withdraw from teaching...
...hand came up very quietly and slid across her throat." ¶ At one of the Big Three meetings, "Franklin had been wondering aloud what would happen in their respective countries if anything happened to [the Big Three], and Stalin said: 'I have everything arranged in my country. I know exactly what will happen...
...Time for Advice. Her pictures of the private life of the Roosevelts are among the best in the area of "things nobody else can know." Every morning when she was home, Mrs. Roosevelt called on the President in his room after breakfast ; if he was too busy reading the newspapers she left without disturbing...