Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to the faculty of Harvard's Graduate School of Design is that of Walter Gropius to the Department of Architecture. Professor Gropius comes to Harvard from a private practice in London; his work during his four years there, and five years of practice in Berlin are the best proof of his prowess as an exponent of modern technique. As well as being a foremost "practical" architect, his theories of architectural design, eyed askance by traditionalists when he first advanced them, are now regarded as probably the most influential in the field of modern architecture...
...this year as they were last. Only in a few less courses are the new men puzzled by masses of reading, novel styles of teaching, and intricate disorganization of material. That the first try to beat these obstacles without resort to the tutoring schools was a failure is no proof that a solution cannot be had. The prosperity of certain institutions along Massachusetts Avenue shows that reviews can be made so effective and valuable that men will pay large amounts of money to get them. True enough last years half-cocked attempts came nowhere near the professional standards, but there...
Departmental work in upperclass years is almost tutor-proof, and even underclass courses seem to grow less amenable to "cold-doping," which is the greatest and most lucrative sin of the big-money instructors. Legitimate forms of tutoring seem to become more popular, and the tutors, sometimes to their own confessed astonishment, seem to become educators. Undoubtedly there is still too much tutoring of the sort which merely postpones for a few months the time when student and university must part company, but the day has passed when a young man can casually sign up for routine tutoring in course...
...London circles close to the Prime Minister this week it was said that Squire Baldwin was asking the Radical French Cabinet for further proof of their accusations about Germans in Morocco before his own Conservative British Cabinet finally made up their minds...
...grade of C at the end of the year is considered proof of a sufficient knowldege of English for a college student. Since there are no mid-year examinations, and the November "Hours" usually include a theme, the principal basis for the marks are written compositions. The main test, therefore, is ability to write good English, which would be fully proven by a mark of "B" at mid-years...