Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week New York police, looking to quiz him for practicing medicine without a license, learned that he was beyond their reach at Fontana, Cal. He had written a letter from general delivery, Los Angeles : "I have lost my position. I have lost all my money. I do not expect to return to New York for the rest of my life. . . . My only consolation is that this whole situation arose through circumstances entirely beyond my control." However, at Fontana last week the second Mrs. Empringham announced that he was on his way to Manhattan barely to face any accusations, medical...
...still remain a few courses which, in their irritating insistence upon periodical reckonings, are out of step with the times. Such a one, for example, is History 12. Here quizzes of the type given Freshman sections in elementary courses follow one another at fortnightly intervals; when there is no quiz, there is a short paper to be written, or a map to be handed in. The course becomes only a series of mileposts to be passed as quickly and easily as possible...
...History 12 is only representative if a type of teaching still too common. The major harm of such a system of small duties to the professor is that they discourage thought. No forty-five minute quiz, no five page report offers a chance to think. The discharge of such duties resolves into a test of memory or an assembling of a number of encyclopaedic facts in order...
...Worcester has also made a change in the manner in which the course is conducted. At the end of each lecture the students will be given printed questionnaires covering the talk just completed and containing five questions. One of these questoins will be the subject of a short quiz at the following meeting, and the questions on the final examination will also be taken from these question sheets. At the end of the course in February, a one-hour test will be given, to pass which a knowledge of the lectures will be necessary. A student who fails to receive...
Wadsworth House--Where you go when a quiz makes you wake up with a sore throat...