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...factual part of the test proved quite difficult, the identification questions causing more trouble than usual. Such, names as Gates W. McGarrah, Amy Johnson, and "Enterprise", were wrongly identified by a majority of the contestants. In the second and more important section of the quiz, short essays between 250 and 600 words in length, the Wickersham Report, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the Conflict between Mr. Hoover and Congress were the most popular of the subjects offered. In commenting on the contest, Mr. Wright said that the papers were of an unusually high standard and displayed evidence of intensive...
...cards get in condition now by visiting the pool occasionally, as the test is by no means an easy one. The four release methods have to be demonstrated in one session, as do also the four carrying methods, and clothing has to be worn in certain events. An oral quiz is also required...
...important events of the preceding year; while the second will be made up of a number of fact questions. Short essays on such topics as exploration in the Antarctic, the aftermath of the stock market crash, and dictatorship in European policies were asked for last year: in the fact quiz, the candidates had to identify and bring out the part played in current news of such figures as Mme. Curie, Leon Daudet, and Ortiz Rubio as well as to answer briefly such questions as, "Who won the Pulitzer Novel Prize for 1928-29?" and "Who is governor-general...
...improvement of instruction. So far as the lecture courses are concerned, the policy has been that of assigning the most experienced teachers to give the lectures with most gratifying results. The matter of expense, however, has made it more or less necessary to use young, inexperienced teachers for the quiz sections into which the large lecture courses are divided and for the elementary language courses which really should have been completed in school. These younger men are not only lacking in teaching experience, but they are for the most part absorbed in their own graduate study, and teaching for them...
...weekly quiz sections are intolerable. A five minute test is given, not to determine the amount of knowledge gleaned from the week's reading, but to ascertain merely if the student has done the assignment. Beyond the fact that this procedure is contrary to all pedagogical theory, it is absolutely impossible to convey any of the salient points of 150 pages of Plato to an instructor by means of a five minute scrawl. These meetings were primarily organized to solve any difficulties that the student might have, but they have been reduced to infinite and fruitless arguments on the number...