Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boasting three wins and three losses in Ivy League competition, the debaters defeated Penn earlier in the year arguing the affirmative side of the question: "Resolved, That a federal world government be established." Tonight Jerrold P. Bahn '49 and Howard L. Swartzman '47 will take the negative of the same topic for the Council...
...said yesterday, the tutorial idea seemed to be one of the best answers. The reason I say this is that it offers under the present system the only opportunity for real intellectual exchange and personal relation between teacher and student. The difficulty of the system is its expense. The question then is, are the available instructors being used to best advantage? I think they are not and what I suggest for consideration as a substitute is the seminar system, particularly as used at Swarthmore College. I feel that both the tutor's and the student's time would...
...program will attack business career problems from three angles with speakers outlining the general job situation today, the values of business administration schools, and offering their answers to the question of how to land...
What has happened since then is an expansion of the original question into a full-scale Council discussion of educational policy. That there are large issues concerned in the question of compulsory hour exams is certainly true. Aspects of the value of any examinations, of frequent tests versus one per term, of the possible substitution of papers or seminars are all important. But they are not central to the specific point under discussion...
...administration has recognized this danger and has pioneered in the idea of General Education. I am heartily in favor of the General Education idea as an answer to the question "What should be taught?" but it does not answer the question "How shall it be taught...