Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When you say that the farther away from this country the looser the morals become," cried Professor Harold Cooke Gutteridge, a member of the Commission, "did you mean the looser the morals of the briber or the bribed?" (Laughter...
...wisp of a woman who glides unseen and unheard through the monastic suites with pail and dustup, the life of one Crimson editor will seem a complete enigma. Mrs G. . . . to whom he wistfully refers as "the woman who allegedly cleans my room," is a German fran of no mean tonnage and poundage, who keeps both him and his roommate completely under her thumb. Unfortunately for his relations with his redoubtable keeper the editor is far from the paragon of neatness, and at any given time his bedroom looks much like the Biltmore ballroom on New Years morning. Withered...
This does not mean that there is a conflict between course lectures and the tutorial system. There is only a conflict between course requirements and the tutorial system. A tutorial student would be hard beset if he did not avail himself of course lectures. Moreover, the honor student is not likely to disregard perhaps, the greatest opportunity the college offers--namely that of listening to the lectures of brilliant scholars...
Dean Leighton granted permission to give these sessions only in the subjects where the permission of the head of the course could be obtained, and in History 1, it was felt it was too late to arrange a review, as all mean eligible to give it had seen the examination...
Reviewing, coordinating, synthesizing always present perplexing problems. None the less, it should be recognized that reviewing is within any teacher's purview, or to put it more pointedly, that it is part of his job. Reviewing, in this sense, does not mean cramming shallow pates with doctored facts. It means, above all, the organization of material previously presented--material that necessarily could not be schematized and organized at the beginning of a course...