Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bill Ferguson will read his poetry at the fourth weekly Advocate Poetry Informal at 8 p.m. tonight in the Straus Common Room, C-entry...
Failure seems to be admitted tacitly by director Kilgo when he says, "Some students of course have more aptitude than others, but 95 per cent of the students who come to us could, sooner or later, read more than 2000 words per minute. People who are conscientious enough to stick it out long enough are rare." The guarantee states that the student will learn the technique in eight weeks, not "sooner or later...
...often happens that a student will push himself along at 2000 words per minute on the final test, following instructions and confident that his low score on the following comprehension test will prove what he is sure of-that he has not learned to read dynamically. Then a strange thing will happen. He will score well on the comprehension test in spite of understanding little of what he read...
...Yale graduate student named Richard Gordon is suing the Institute for the price of his tuition. On the final test he refused to read faster than he could understand and consequently finished only about half of the reading in the time allotted. On the comprehension test, he scored 80 per cent on the questions covering the part he read and 70 per cent on the reading he had not done. In a letter to the director of the Bridgeport, Connecticut, Institute, Gordon writes of the second test...
...increasing pressure on undergraduates to produce original research--in tutorial or on a thesis--makes more and more perplexing the nonsense of distinguishing them from the rest of the scholarly community. It is also becoming more and more maddening--maddening to watch the lights of Widener's reading room signal its 10 p.m. closing when one is only half way through a 200-page article, maddening to take extensive notes on a work one could just as well read at leisure in one's room...