Word: orall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan last week, Columbia University's School of Dental and Oral Surgery announced a new, virtually painless dental drill, the Cavitron. Designed to replace the nerve-wracking metal burr, the pencil-shaped Cavitron is quieter and quicker...
Attorneys for the scientist immediately appealed to the full Atomic Energy Commission to take the case "under immediate consideration." They also requested permission to file a written brief by Monday and to appear in oral argument before the commission...
This consists of a written and oral evaluation by the student of what he has already done in college, and a projection of his plans throughout the Upper College period, which he defends before a faculty committee. This is the single important checking-point where inventory of the student is taken before the senior year. Ordinarily, a student who fails this Moderation is dismissed...
These report to the student in paragraph form about such things as his quality of interest, development, ability for independent work, understanding of the field or of a particular course, and his written and oral expression. Also, they classify a student's grasp of ideals, factual material, initiative, participation, and course work from "Excellent" to "Below Minimum Standards." Grades are put in the bottom right hand corner...
...their term papers, students must write book reports, e.g., on Yankee from Olympus (the life of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes), but to improve their table conversation, Professor Davenport also makes them deliver oral reports. By the end of the year, says he, his class should have covered a lot of reading without a single whereas. Among the books on his list: Dreiser's An American Tragedy (murder), Melville's Billy Budd (admiralty law), Trollope's Orley Farm (perjury and forgery), and Dickens' Bleak House-"a wonderful example," says Davenport, "of the slow machinery...