Word: periods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...female pickaninny and that courtiers agreed that the grimaces of her dwarf must have frightened her into what would otherwise have been a most dubious production. The black girl was baptized Louise Marie, and sent to a convent where she stayed until her death. French records of the period speak of a "black...
...Church of Christ, Scientist had 635 churches and 85,717 members. Last week the results of a new census were published; they showed that the Church of Christ, Scientist, during what has been a period of decline or passivity for many other Christian denominations, has now increased its membership to 202,098 and the number of its churches...
Many calls are now coming in for settlement house workers, now that the Midyear period is passed, according to McTurnan, and there are increased opportunities for work in the field of sports directing, basketball, baseball, and football organizers being in demand...
...revolutionary aspect of the Reading Period has, it seems to me, been overestimated. As the plan worked out in many cases, students were merely given unusually heavy assignments which did not essentially differ from ordinary course requirements. In such instances, the changes involved in the Reading Period were as follows: students were not lectured to, nor were they quizzed on the subjects covered by the assignments. But when one considers that the lectures in some courses do not cover the same ground as the contemporaneous reading, and that few courses hold quizzes directly prior to the examination period, the novelty...
...Reading Period more conducive to to intellectual independence on the part of the students, and a more definite departure from the prevalent spoon-feeding methods in American education might be devised. Of the possibilities which are open I mention two. First, a student might, by arrangement with his department, or tutor, or both, investigate into a field which interests him and which the pressure of course work does not allow him to pursue in the regular session. Second, as has been suggested in several courses, students might read in some special topic connected with the subject of a course. Louis...