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...suggest, however, that in the last paragraph, which proposes an increase in the number of readers so that "the paper could be returned in time for the student to make any justified complaints before his grade is turned in," that you are perhaps laying faulty emphasis. If you admit that the primary purpose of the exam should, in theory at least, be increased learning, then the primary purpose of returning the exam to the student is to give him constructive criticism, and not to achieve a meeting of the minds between student and greater on what a fair mark should...
...Nevertheless it is being taught in all Oregon schools; see next paragraph...
...something else, and something even more helpful to the undergraduate searching perplexedly for a fourth course, has been included. For the first time in College history, practically the entire body of offerings open to undergraduates is given a paragraph or two of descriptions, not just a title, number, and meeting hour. These notes vary in length and in quality: some are clear and helpful prospectuses of things to come; others are still little more than cryptic titles. But every lecturer had the opportunity to say whatever he wished to about his course, and all but a few have contributed something...
...York Daily News Drama Critic John Chapman, after viewing the chichi opening of Tonight at 8:30 (see THEATER), let go a loaded paragraph at first-night audiences: "They lit matches and smoked in the aisles . . . haughtily ignoring the feeble bleats of ushers who kept trying to tell these jerks that one doesn't do that sort of thing . . . in a sardine box like the National [Theater], I tried to find the fireman assigned to the house to suggest [that he] haul some well-dressed slob ... up to night court. But he wasn't around. Maybe...
...other footnote dropped from the final paragraph of the Henry Wallace affair. When the President called the Commerce Department to give Wallace his walking papers, Nover reported, "Wallace's response was so gentle and friendly that he, Truman, was almost ready to say to Wallace: 'Aw forget it, Henry...