Word: properity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CAESAR AT THE RUBICON: A PLAY ABOUT [ POLITICS, by Theodore-H. White. The manipulation of man by man is a proper concern of political journalists, and here one of the best takes an informed look at how it was done in the old days...
Concern over the proper utilization of resources has led a number of Catholic educators to consider alternatives to the parochial school as a means of providing religious education. One highly promising experiment is now under way in La Porte, Ind., where four Marist Brothers have set up an informal Christian teaching laboratory that has no texts, no formal classes, and no compulsory attendance-the students are all volunteers...
...next three weeks would be reading period proper. Students would have to make up their minds about courses earlier than in the past, perhaps after the first week of reading period and would do so on the basis of their observation of the lecturer, the reading lists, the synopses, an actual stab at the reading and perhaps even the Confi Guide! Students wishing to drop courses later in the year would be permitted to take make-up exams...
...proper function of exams has been widely mis-understood. As instruments for checking up on the mechanical aspects of the educational process they are ideal. However exams cannot and should not attempt to produce creativity. The superficiality of most exam answers and the difficulty of honest grading are legendary among teaching fellows. Besides, anyone who feels that a one-hour essay written under conditions of stress can accurately plumb the depth of his or her intelligence and understanding must be in a pretty bad state...
...match, the Princetonians, who had defeated all of their previous opponents that season by a 9-0 margin, speculated on their chances of performing a similar fete against the Crimson. The latter had fallen two years running to the defending national champs, so one Tiger racquetman thought it only proper, upon arriving at Hemenway Gym, to inquire of his Harvard opponent, "Aren't you scared playing Princeton?" "Oh yeah, terrified," came the reply...