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...question, "what does an individual get out of a college education?" is still classified as moot. One expert in the field, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, has from time to time in the past decade given alarming answers. Nearly ten years ago it began testing students in Pennsylvania to find out what they knew, how much they were learning. All told it has tested some 55,000 Pennsylvanians, as high-school seniors, as college sophomores and as college seniors. Last week the Foundation issued a summary of this tremendous study, called The Student and His Knowledge, Bulletin...
...quarter finals of this competition for the coveted Ames Prize is only open to second year men, as the first year men take part in the "moot" trials for the Roscoe Pound Prize. The Ames Competition arguments are open to the public free of charge...
...same time Brent M. Abel '37 and Edward T. Gignoux '37 were declared winners of the second round moot court arguments for first year men. The first place team, representing the Pound Law Club, received two copies of Ballantine's Law Dictionary...
...moot court arguments runner-up honors went to Shepherd Brooks '36 and George M. Duff, Jr. of the Scott Law Club; and Malcolm E. Erskine and Bryan S. Moore, Root Law Club representatives...
...Charles Michelson in his regular Democratic National Committee publicity hand-out to the press, "Dispelling the Fog," added some to a moot question: "When they are not talking about the hopeless viciousness of the New Deal principles nowadays, they are invoking the old favorite fable of Roosevelt seeking a dictatorship. And then they trot out the old bogey of a third term. . . . Obviously, the President cannot in advance decline a renomination that may never be offered him. Just as obviously, with the world in such a turmoil as it is today outside of this continent, it cannot be forecast whether...