Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Urbane Parisians, who have long 'done most of their newspaper reading between the lines, suspected last week that the Rome-Berlin newspapers would be made to behave rather than be suppressed, but that before long the Rightist Premier may suppress outright the Communist dailies L'Humanite and Ce Soir...
...Progressive points out, an ideal examination system -- which educators have been seeking for many years -- is highly desirable. There is no doubt at all that tests requiring "an application of knowledge to specific problems rather than mere recitation of knowledge" would destroy the illegitimate functions of the tutoring schools. However, since few such exams have been devised, it seems impractical to attack the tutoring system from such an idealistic angle...
Captain Jack Barr and his Senior mate Henry Thompson form the second best due that Hodder can send up to the firing line. Barr is rather light but makes up for it with a steady all-round game. It any one part of his game stands out from the rest, it is his putting. Thompson in heavier and longer off the tee, but again his main forte is consistency...
...work for the tutoring schools. There they lost any personal interest and pride in their pupils. They were restricted principally to giving reviews just prior to exams to students who had by then lost any desire for real comprehension of the subject. Given a chance to consider themselves teachers rather than accomplices in the art of just getting by, the tutors will certainly do a better job than they are at present doing in the tutoring schools...
...disadvantage of the tutoring schools is that, while certain people may now earn large sums by tutoring the large majority of those who would and could tutor are unable to get any work at all. The appointments in the schools are often made on the basis of friendship rather than merit. By having more legitimate private tutoring, and less group reviews, many more students would be given needed employment...