Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not "stick." This is, indeed, most unfortunate. If only cramming had among other things, certain adhesive qualities, the worries of many students would be at an end. Those who are veterans would be exonerated from that slightly belittling appellation, a crammer, and those who are above such things might spend the time they use in rationalizing their stooping to an action unbecoming in one of high ideals to better advantage. In other words, whether we will or not most of us resort, to cramming. The queer point is that, despite its standardized list of bad points, cramming succeeds...
...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 cease. Since in our own college some instructors hold this very view and have seen it worked out successfully, it cannot be tagged "just theory" and laid aside. Normal School News
...lecture-system, has lately fallen into disuse. This is the practice, once popular with the faculty, of exchanging lecture-classes occasionally, so as to give the classes the benefit of listening to experts in the fields which they are studying. For example, a lecturer in Ancient History might exchange places, for one lecture, with a lecturer in Greek Archaeology. Thus the students in both groups could enjoy the privilege of listening to men who have specialized in matters that make up a minor part of the entire course, but are nevertheless important...
...established in 1911, has distributed securities with a total value of more than $50,000,000. It recently took part in the syndicate underwriting of many new issues, many of which have been among the notable contributors to present slumps in stock prices. It was admitted that the suspension might become permanent...
Helen Wills and plump Francis Hunter lost, as they did last year, the mixed doubles, to scampering Henri Cochet of France and Eileen Bennett of England (6-3, 6-2). Told that future English tournaments might prohibit her barelegged play, Miss Wills observed icily: "I did not discard stockings as a fad. I have done it to increase my speed." Her speed won the women's singles again. She trounced Eileen Bennett (6-2, 7-5) and Mme. Rene Mathieu, No. 1 Frenchwoman...