Word: learned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Manhattan's famed Progressive Lincoln School sent a group of 16-year-olds to the coal fields of Morgantown, W. Va., to learn how the other half lived. After exploring coal mines and living with Morgantown high-school youngsters for ten days, Lincoln's students returned to Manhattan to ponder what they had seen, gain two years in understanding and thinking power, by scientific tests (TIME, Oct. 31). Thereupon Lincoln School and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which financed the trip, decided to find out whether their educational experiment would work as well in reverse. Last...
...work of the staff is two-fold, first to learn the use of instruments, and, second, to master the technique of putting a show on the air. Problems in connection with this phase of the work include: the acoustics of the broadcasting room; the placement of performers in order to avoid rebound and overemphasis; the accurate reproduction of sound effects so that "hoof beats in the distance" don't drown out the heroics of the act; and the blending of all parts of the program in the right proportions...
...making of the record. The needle must be adjusted to cut just right; the chemical makeup of the record must be neither too hard nor too soft; high and low notes must be carefully merged together. In all of these factors the staff plans extensive experimentation in order to learn the fundamentals of what goes on behind the scenes in a radio broadcast...
...machinery for bringing students and tutors together, although this machinery is at present very rarely used. If those undergraduates who needed polishing up in any subject would go to University L, they could quickly be given the names of several students who are ready and anxious to help them learn the material they need...
These two things, in my opinion, would help greatly to alleviate the situation. First is the realization on the part of the person needing tutoring that he will get more from the personal attention of a man who is really interested in having him learn the subject. Second is the adoption of a system of approving the tutors by the Employment Office. Robert Fleischer...