Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spend from nine to fifteen hours weekly in the lab, three hours in lectures, an hour or two in laboratory conferences, and from two to five hours in study of texts, provided that he is working for an honor grade. Thus, to learn the subject and receive a good mark, it is often necessary to spend a total of twenty-five hours a week on one subject, and it is hardly possible to escape with less than fifteen frenzied hours of effort...
...hocus-pocus in the departments of Chemistry and Biology which results in this unpleasant combination of single credit and intolerably heavy laboratory assignments has several unfortunate effects. Those students who do the work conscientiously, assimilating the material thoroughly and receiving a good mark, are forced either to neglect their other courses or to spend so much time on their various studies that they become, in the purest sense, grinds. It is not at all uncommon to find men who are taking two heavy laboratory courses, a Physics course with a reasonable laboratory, period, and some reading course for distribution; such...
...irony of Mark Antony's reference to Caesar's assassins as "honorable men" was lost-as the defense attorney hoped and expected it would be-on a bench full of Japanese naval judges weak in English classics. They assumed that when Shakespeare wrote "honorable men" he meant honorable men. The case before the court last week turned on the pivots of honor, patriotism and Japanese devotion to the Divine Emperor. One by one the six assassins had testified that in slaying Premier Ki Inukai, a clever politician known throughout Japan as "The Old Fox," they acted "to bring...
...case of full courses especially, the latter forms no mirror of mutual acquaintance between pupil and instructor. It is simply an ill-timed interruption of tutorial work and serious study, an organized period of cramming brought on in order that a grade, seldom considered in averaging the final mark, may be returned to University Hall. As is recognized by most members of the faculty, the very brevity of the hour examination renders it a ridiculously inadequate gauge of scholastic calibre. It has become a more battle of wits between platform and bench, a futile and expensive bout of mental gymnastics...
...Mark Sullivan, touring the Midwest, observed for the New York Herald Tribune and its syndicate: "[The people] are willing to accept NRA as the fire department, but have no idea of letting it become the permanent police department...