Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School, of Business Administration has quietly come forward with a possible solution. There is a general agreement that limitation of enrollment is a pressing necessity--Dartmouth and Princeton already have come to it. But the question has been one of method. Each of the latter colleges has adopted a process that involves various sorts of selection, all of a more or less problematical nature. Significant in all the plans is the acknowledgment that the ordinary entrance examination is not sufficient...
...used only in case there is reasonable ground for believing him deficient; whereas examinations not only furnish the teacher with an accurate sense of what the pupil knows and how far he can use his knowledge, but, if properly used, are an essential part of the educational process...
...himself, since we have not at present a course such as Mr. Allen has suggested. Only when, through knowledge gained from reliable sources, we really understand how to picture "the world about us--can we play our part in it intelligently and independently," says Mr. Allen. In the process we shall force the newspapers to change their opinion as to "what the public wants...
...occasion to quote in my first letter, but whose theories had been taken sceptically by the Bingham expedition. One of these theories was that the Incas wrote on leaves. It was not long before we had dipped a number of the leaves in water and translated the writing. This process revealed that the office we had unearthed was that of the university daily newspaper, and the bunches of leaves corresponded to the bound volumes of the sheet. I have chosen a selection at random, an editorial which explains itself...
...Wherefore, we commend unto the Circle of the Elders who forever labor that their charges may gather to the full the harvest of their studies without undue unpleasantness to the latter in the process thereof--we commend unto them the example of Doctor Choqqueguiran, our inspired instructor of logical disputation. It having occurred to him that his pupils were not entirely absorbed in the devolutions of his lectures he struck upon the happy thought of having his pupils demonstrate the workings of the principle of the syllogism by the acting of charades. Thereafter he discovered that the pupils waited upon...