Word: quizzes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: There is little danger of ever losing me as a subscriber-a year ago I won a General Information Quizz prize of $25.00, a feat which I attribute to TIME'S timely assistance. Thus I feel I can subscribe for five years FREE. Even after TIME will continue to be worth the chips. ALLAN M. SHEAHEN...
There is no significance to the following eight QUIZZ games...
Perhaps one of the people whom you invite to your QUIZZ party is afflicted with St. Vitus dance. Perhaps he or she is sensitive 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...
...them are real teachers. One can know multiple roots and have no sense of pedagogy. One can be sure of himself in the oral quizz for a doctorate and lack the vital spark which makes for communication of ideas. Yet some can play through the grind of procuring a doctorate and remain sane, interesting. Not even three years, when they should be broadening their minds, spent in fitting an esotericism in scholarship to their mental decorations can completely dull these men. Furthermore, they like university life. It means the companionship of cultivated minds. It means refuge from the mechanical efficiency...
...last two changes are clearly progressive. It might be feared that to abolish mid-year tests-would leave a void in the system of grading. In this case, however, there is definite intent to substitute the instructor's judgment for the results of the quizz. And, as if to emphasize that the quality of work required is not to be lowered, President Ogilby has announced that students failing in a large proportion of their work will be dropped their first mid-year, on the basis of instructors reports as heretofore on the results of examinations. Comment on the permission granted...