Word: orals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each year, delegates gather from about a dozen Eastern colleges to foster interest in poetry; it is believed that only through proper oral rendition can poetry achieve its ultimate possibilities as a means of real enjoyment. It is the purpose of the Convention to bring about an improvement in that direction. The program consists in a series of five-minute recitations of poetry by the delegates, each of whom selects his own part...
Liberalism and idealism are much misused terms but they may be taken to include a belief in the essential oral quality of man, the courage to undertake new adventures in democracy in response to ideals of social justice, and a recognition that as life itself is dynamic so must institutions and policies grow and develop or else paralysis and death overtake them...
...last of a series of 12 lectures which have been given every Sunday since the first week in January. The following subjects among others, have been discussed: "Modern Conceptions of the Brain at Work", "Cancer", "What the X-Ray can and Cannot Do", "The White House Conference and Oral Hygiene", "Asthma, Hay Fever, and Allied Conditions", and "Rheumatic Heart Disease in Children and Adults...
...facts in a restricted field and will show a more mature and profound grasp of fundamentals. The steps taken will facilitate this opportunity for the superior student by exempting him from mechanical examinations on fact. The average student, through not exempt from the preliminary examinations, will in the final oral quiz have to show the same intelligent grasp of first principles. Both the superior and the average student will profit by the removal from graduate work of the incubus of men of sub-normal intelligence. The changes will make the degree of Ph.D. in Sociology mean intelligence rather than mere...
...professors of the department will have adequate opportunity to observe the work of each individual. At the end of the year, the men will be divided into three groups. Those in the first group will be exempted from the examination; the second group, to continue, must qualify in an oral examin- ation designed to test mental ability and not memory; the third group will be advised to discontinue...