Word: maye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present Colonial Club has been razed, but it is expected that definite plans will be drawn up, and activity commenced upon the new project in the immediate future. The new Faculty Club will probably be completed and ready for occupancy by September of 1930 if present indications may be taken at face value, and in its completed form will provide a meeting place and all the conveniences of a savant organization for approximately 1000 members...
...such a gamble? Is it just that the man who works outside a thousand hours a year and misses the Dean's List by the difference between a "C" plus and a "B" minus should receive nothing more than a form letter of regret, especially when his numerical average may be actually higher than that of a man on the Dean's List...
...school practice, with particular reference to the examination. It has been said that an examination is good, only when it is the best teaching device available at that particular time. Its function should be to point out when teaching has not taken effect, in order that remedial exercises may be applied. It should not be used as a device for finding out what a student knows, or does not know, with the object of inflicting a penalty to the deficient. Were the examination used in the light of showing the students his weaknesses, that he might correct them, cramming would...
...Stanford in 1925 a movement was begun that in a way makes amends for the cut and dried aspect of the lock-step system. Under the title, The Independent Study Plan, a means is offered whereby the student may use his own initiative in his university work. The plan is open to students of exceptional qualifications at the beginning of their junior or senior years...
...Marine nine from Quantico will storm the Harvard baseball fort on Soldiers Field this afternoon. The conflict is scheduled to start at 3 o'clock, but some of the festivities before the game may delay the zero hour until about 3.20 o'clock...