Word: professor
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...Automobile, one of the 20 most frequently mispronounced words, may be accented on any syllable but the second, but Professor Opdycke advises saying auto instead...
...Professor Ralph Winfred Tyler, University of Chicago's famed chief examiner and professor of education, believes that U. S. high schools and colleges do not teach students to think. Because pedagogues lack even the means of finding out whether students can think, Professor Tyler and colleagues spent three months thinking up a test of thinking. Last month, having excogitated 290 questions and created perhaps the most elaborate thinking test ever devised, they stunned a group of the nation's smartest high-school graduates with it. The examinees were 1,407 high-standing students, trying for 34 University...
Last week Professor Tyler announced results of his test, found that students thought about as fuzzily as he had expected. Only 42% could make sense of the literary passages and even fewer had any notion of what Poet Stevens was driving at; 75% believed that the poem was an argument for temperance. Similarly, the students as a group scored only 47% on literary information, 42% on scientific information. They did better (57%) on a section of the test in which their memory for facts counted. Examinees were found to have many superstitions: 70% believed that daughters resemble their fathers more...
...Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry was established in 1925 through the gift of Charles Chauncey Stillman '28, in memory of Charles Eliot Norton, who was professor of the History...
Igor Strawinsky, internationally recognized composer of modern music, has been appointed Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for the coming academic year, according to an announcement from University Hall...