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...matter of preparing the quiz is of the utmost importance. The questions on the week's reading must not be given, as it is suspected they have been, merely to disclose whether the student did the reading. Such questions as "Which wife did Henry VIII call a 'Flemish mare'?" are out. Questions must be only on important points. That will emphasize them. The class discussion can then amplify them. The result should be to fix them in the student's memory. It is for the instructor to decide what is important and put it across. The questions on back work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALUMNUS SURVEYS PRESENT QUIZ SYSTEM AND FINDS IT WANTING IN EFFICIENCY | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

Then, finally, he denied that Spain had placed a general ban on the books of Blasco Ibaņez and had denied his authorship of Mare Nostrum. With a seeming pat on the back and a left hook to the jaw, the Ambassador concluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Decadent? | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...only forbidden work is the seditious Alfonso XIII Unmasked?. As for Mare Nostrum, all Spain knows the author. To hide his name is impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Decadent? | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...mare, Rosita, is the property of Major H. H. Raj Rajeshwar Saramad Rajhai-Hindustan Maharaja Dhirej Sri Sir Ummaid Singh-ji Sahib Bahadur of Jodpur, is the British star. Gargantilla, spectacularly marked veteran of the last series from the Whitney stables, will be among those under Milburn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Polo Begins | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...Simpson) found himself hitched to the stable cause, while his son, Bob (Charles E. Mack*), trailed the new-fangled enemy. Only after Barney Oldfield (who appears in the film) has roared over a race track at the unprecedented speed of 60 miles per hour, and Sloe Eyes, his last mare, has taken her final earthly hurdle, does the old horse-lover give in to the conquering gas-buggy. By that time his son has grown romantic under the influence of the heroine (Patsy Ruth Miller) and returned to the horse tradition, leaving the house as hopelessly divided against itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jul. 11, 1927 | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

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