Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accent on Quizzes. Wrote Beloff: "The habits of spoon-feeding that the school child acquires are not easily abandoned at the college level. Instruction by lecture and random discussion with the reading of prescribed passages from prescribed textbooks, the whole tested by examinations largely factual in character ... are hardly the way to encourage either independence of mind or maturity of judgment...
This "delayed intellectual adolescence," he found, continues even at the postgraduate level, where a Ph.D. student is so encumbered with courses and quizzes that he has no time for original work at all. "This method," blurted Beloff, "produces more Ph.D.s ... it does not produce more scholars...
...Goldman, professor at the School of Public Health, declared that the compulsory plan was the only way in which poorer persons could obtain sufficient medical care. Goldman stated that health insurance groups like the Blue Cross and Blue Shield were successful largely in industrial areas with a high income level. Blue Cross covers only between three or four percent of rural populations he said...
...division of departmental loyalties and teaching time may not go smoothly in the near future. But if the Faculty can make the scheme come off, the level of a Harvard education will take a long leap upwards...
...this way the States will keep control over the divorce proceedings as at present, but they will all have one law. Decentralization of the courts will speed up the divorce actions and keep them on a more personal level...