Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...principle of paper-writing is certainly recognised in the lower-level General Education courses, which in their attempt to bestir sluggard minds, usually require at least four papers apiece. Instructors of departmental and upper-level General Education courses, however, often require no more than an hour exam. Hour exams do serve to test one's mental agility. And they make a good game, in which one sees how well he can furnish a blue-book from the warehouse of a vacant mind. Even if one does know the material, hour exams permit little time for serious deliberation of a question...
...Papers, on the other hand, encourage a careful study on a problem and a sincere effort to understand its every aspect. Because a paper points more toward understanding than toward argumentation, it proves a much more effective educational device than the hour exam...
...correct an erroneous impression from yesterday's paper: the varsity track team financed most of its vacation trip to Quantico with funds given by the Friends of Harvard Track. The players then supplied the difference between the expenses and the gift...
...lunchtime so many flocked to his table that he decided to use the hour to give extracurricular Spanish lessons. In class he had a knack for arousing the interest of the most unlikely pupils. One day he gave a farm boy who had always hated poetry a piece of paper and said, "Now, imagine you are seated at the plow. What do you see?" The result, says Richer, "was a truly beautiful poem. Every one of those kids was learning to think for himself. I thought that that was my job." Even Bein' God. Had he been willing...
...creatures, the Krell, whose technology was a million years ahead of mankind's. They vanished mysteriously, in a single night, even as they realized their greatest achievement: a civilization without instrumentalities, force without form, spirit without substance. They became, in a word, gods. Or did they? On paper, the answer to this question would seem to nix the picture's intellectual respectability once and for all, but on the screen it makes King Kong look like an organ grinder's monkey, and will probably have the most skeptical scientist in the audience clutching wildly for his atomic...