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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parenthetic thoughts occur. Was the success of some of the professional tutors due entirely to "unethical" or counter-educational practices, or was it basically an indictment of Harvard teaching? Since the college examinations are not affairs of fact and rote, it cannot be said that we trained the memory and impoverished the understanding. It is possible that, in brief compass, we taught our students to think on fundamentals sufficiently well to impress their academic mentors. If this be a fault, I ery "Peccavi...
Probably the most spectacular results obtained by the study counsel bureau occur in its reading classes. Last term they included more than 200 men, most of whom achieved a 70 per cent increase in speed. Before the class began students read an average of 250 words per minute and were able to answer correctly 6 1-2 out of 10 comprehension questions. At the conclusion of the 18 hour course they averaged 400 to 450 words per minute with a comprehension score of 7 1-2 to 8 questions...
Succeeding forums will occur on Thursdays. On March 20, Professor Rueben Brown of Amherst will talk on "The Longest Journey." Following him, on March 27, will be Professor Raymond Short, of Hofstra, who will consider "A Room with a View...
...tell us how Shady Hill School was founded by two Harvard professors in protest at the backwardness of Cambridge's public schools [TIME, Feb. 10]. Did it never occur to these highly intelligent men . . . that they could have turned the public schools into a series of Shady Hills? . . . We will have good public schools in Cambridge and everywhere else if or when we adopt the philosophy of the old Vermonter (mentioned by Dorothy Canfield) who said: "What's not good enough for my children's not good enough for anybody's children." MARGARET LEE SOUTHARD Hingham...
...salt (in Lucretia P. Hale's Peter kin Papers'). Family and friends added one ingredient after another, hoping to make Mrs. Peterkin's coffee taste better. A lady of wisdom finally suggested that Mrs. Peterkin just pour a fresh cup. That solution was not apt to occur to Congressmen-they usually prefer something more laborious...