Word: orals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them are real teachers. One can know multiple roots and have no sense of pedagogy. One can be sure of himself in the oral quizz for a doctorate and lack the vital spark which makes for communication of ideas. Yet some can play through the grind of procuring a doctorate and remain sane, interesting. Not even three years, when they should be broadening their minds, spent in fitting an esotericism in scholarship to their mental decorations can completely dull these men. Furthermore, they like university life. It means the companionship of cultivated minds. It means refuge from the mechanical efficiency...
After similar speeches of restrained but vigorous protest by Dr. Unden of Sweden, Jonkheer J. Loudon of the Netherlands and others, an oral vote was called...
...features of the flapjack's new reverse are well-known: lectures instead of recitations, written instead of oral examinations, an elective curriculum, no more compulsory worship. Individualism was the keynote. New life entered the law and divinity schools. The libraries were expanded for research. "Virtue . . . duty . . . piety . . . righteousness," were more real words then than now; Dr. Eliot used them often. After 40 years, the name of John Harvard himself was no more deeply graven upon the tablets at Cambridge than Dr. Eliot's when he retired, at 75, "to spend the evening of his life in serenity...
...never accompanied by the title Mr. No dental student looks forward to being a specialist called a dental hygienist - unless a medical student looks forward to being a trained nurse. A dental hygienist is a young lady having a special one-year course in the proper cleansing of the oral cavity and its contents - otherwise known as the mouth, gums and teeth. FREDERICK H. HOEFFER, D.D.S...
...That distinction be awarded upon the combined evidence of course grades, enters recommendations the written Junior generals, the oral Senior generals, and the distinction thesis...