Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to the terms of the contest, which were announced in the CRIMSON of March 30, the general examination is to be held simultaneously in the several colleges on May 15. These terms stipulated that each college should choose its own date and method of preliminary examination...
...committee, appointed by the Student Council, is to institute an investigation of philanthropic work at summer camps. The committee will commence its investigation immediately, and will be chiefly concerned in finding out the method and means by which other colleges carry on this work. It will then make a report and recommendations based upon its findings, to the Student Council...
...Each competitor is to write for not more than two hours on one or two topics which are to be chosen by himself from a list of ten or 12 suggested by the events of the period beginning October 1, 1925, which will be indicated on the examination. The method of presentation as well as a knowledge of facts will be considered in determining the winner. If the judges are unable to pick a winner on the basis of the written examination alone, they reserve the right to require the leading competitors to submit themselves to a further oral examination...
...Times, speaking editorially of this contest, says in part: "The results of the examinations which will be held in these several Institutions before the end of the academic year, each institution determining the content and method of its own examination, should be at great significance and indicate in what ways the newspaper may be a more general and effective means of education in America. They should also be helpful to the whole movement in adult education. The incidental inter-university contest will open a new field for friendly intellectual competition in subjects of universal human interest and, if successful, should...
...early "in the know," will be interested in this new novel by the author, upon whom a coterie of critics has hastily draped the mantle of Anatole France. Other readers will find it a tale of mystery, written with distinction but not otherwise extraordinary. M. Gide's method, subtle or naive, presents the key of the mystery to the reader and makes his characters do all the groping...