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Allison also said that the frequent quizzes offer a valuable feedback mechanism to weekly sections. "If my students all fail a quiz testing a major concept, I have an indication of who is really at fault," she said...
...Quiz. The possibility of White House connections to the Watergate scandal was obvious the moment the names of the arrested men were revealed. They included G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt Jr., both of whom had worked for the White House before transferring to the Nixon re-election committee. FBI agents did quiz 14 White House officials, but the questioning took place only in the presence of John W. Dean III, a White House attorney asked by the President to conduct an "inhouse" investigation of the case. It should have been apparent to Gray that the presence...
...classroom remained his focal point for 39 years. Among the students influenced by his gentle Socratic discourses were Novelist Jack Kerouac and Poets Thomas Merton, Allen Ginsberg and John Berryman. Though stunned by the 1959 scandal involving his son Charles, who had been fed answers on the TV quiz show Twenty-One, Van Doren remained a near-legendary figure whose guidance was eagerly sought by Columbia's pupils and graduates...
...yearbook editors. George and Eleanor nursed their courtship along over sodas at the Tiger's Lair in the basement of the main hall. George remembers that things really got serious when both he and Eleanor tied for top grades on TIME'S annual current-events quiz. "The professor gave us the test," recalls McGovern. "We both got a 98 out of a possible score of 100. It kind of impressed me. I made a mental note to get to know her better...
...precisely that. In the new edition (Simon & Schuster; $8.95), Adler has added material on novels and poetry as well as syntopical reading (how to read two or more books on the same subject). The book was written in collaboration with Charles Van Doren, 46, the onetime English instructor and Quiz Whiz who came to grief in the TV scandals of 1958-59. In recent years Van Doren has been working with Adler, editing and conducting great books discussion groups...