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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advantages of this plan are enumerated by its author. It abolishes the possibility of flagrant neglect of work; it changes the professor from a quizzer to a guide; it removes the threat of periodic examinations and of the cramming that anticipates them; and for the old lock-step education it substitutes individual freedom of movement. Although President Holt in criticizing the recitation and lecture system of Yale and Harvard is brave and heralded in combatting the present movement toward complete freedom in study, his retrogression toward the grammar school is quite unacceptable. The virtue of final examination is at present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORKADAY LEARNING | 6/7/1928 | See Source »

Appoint a Quizzer and Umpire and Timekeeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Game No. 1 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Quizzer. It is the Quizzer's function to read the questions in clear, loud voice while your friends write down the answers. When all the answers have been written down, the friends exchange papers and the Quizzer reads the correct answers. The Quizzer may be empowered to govern argument and behavior during the game, but at a really good grade party there are separately appointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Game No. 1 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Timekeeper. He holds a regulation stopwatch and cries out to the Quizzer when 15 seconds have elapsed (the legal time limit between questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Game No. 1 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...about it. Perhaps one of the questions in the eight games above listed: "What dance is named after a saint?" Under these circumstances, it would be tactful of you to withdraw the St. Vitus question and substitute one of the following questions in its place. Be tactful. Hand the QUIZZER an advance list of your guests and let him,, prudent, "check" the questions against this guest-list and make substitutions. Here are some substitute or "reserve" questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Evening This Week: Substitute Questions | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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