Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon after they occurred. I published scientific accounts of them in an ornithological journal, and I have no less than sixty clippings cut from various newspapers and other periodicals dealing with them. They run the gamut from the New York Times and the Boston Transcript, through the Christian Science Monitor and sundry farm journals and the like, to the New York American and the tabloids, the last of which headlined the first recovery as ''Lindy's only rival a three months old baby...
Sisley Huddleton, suave cosmopolite, journalist, bon vivant, author (In and About Paris; Louis XIV in Love and War; Europe in Zigzag) radioed to the Christian Science Monitor: A MORE DREARY SET OF NEWSPAPER MEN THAN IS NOW TO BE MET IN THE BRITISH CAPITAL IT HAS NEVER BEEN MY LOT TO ENCOUNTER...
...humble ecstasy the founder-proprietor of L'Osservatore, aristocratic Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre, knelt on his editorial doorstep as the Pontiff departed. Much like the Christian Science Monitor in format is the papal paper except that it carries no advertisements or cooking recipes, displays the triple tiara of the Pope and his crossed keys to Earth and Heaven. Though crime news is excluded, sensations are not. Thus a recent headline in L'Osservatore reads: Un bambino investito da un autocarro ("A little boy attacked [i. e. bumped] by an automobile"). Significant details were given...
This appears to me to be a very cynical attitude on the part of the University. The code of honor is apparently encouraged only to make the monitor's labors easier. But it rests with either the monitor or the student to prevent cheating; if it's the monitor's job, then the responsibility is not the student's. He can cheat as much as he please provided he is not caught; and if he is caught he must be punished not for an ethical offense, but for violating a class room regulation, and such a punishment would...
...must be one of the two methods of conducting examinations, but not both. As it is when the student doesn't cheat he merely gets credit for obedience and fear of the monitor, if he does cheat he is punished for imposing on the confidence of his instructor. This state of affairs is insulting both to our intelligence and to our honor, and for the sake of candor either the honor system or the grammar school system should go. --Ivan Rosenthal...