Word: partings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost equally bad are the mass reviews upon which the businesses of Wolff and Parker-Cramer are based. As a means to real education, these are a farce. They consist, for the most part, in skillful spotting of examinations and cramming of answers. Students emerge merely with high-lights of information--which is necessarily superficial, which they do not understand, which they have not assimilated. The most important part of study, organization of the material, is completely absent. Thus the essence of education-mastery in the methodology of thought--is taken out. Students do not think; their thinking is done...
Much the same can be said for notes and outlines. Pre-digested material is practically useless for educational purposes. It can be carried in the head long enough to pass an examination; it can never be made part of a permanent store of knowledge...
...show will be given some time in the latter part of May in one of Boston's largest theatres and will run for four days. Written by Marcel Achard and produced in Paris last year by Louis Jouvet, the play was hailed as a definite succeeds...
...Part of the program was arranged by the University Committee on the Extra Curricular Study of American History. The lectures will be on "The Changing West...
...himself busy in the outfield or at first when he isn't twirling. Sophomore McGilan are the other outer-gardeners. Eddle has been shifted between second base and the outfield, and Rog Hazen is the regular custodian of first base. Tricky Alter is another second sacker. To turn to part of the infield (the left side) which seems to be the same from day to day, we find that Besse and Krech have third and short sewed...