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...other courses, among them Physics C and Biology D, have comparable marking systems; but the rest, though they may shout to the skies that they have complete coordination among their sections, can give no air-tight proof of fact. They can only refer vaguely to the "common sense" of their instructors. True, the common sense of a great many staffs is extremely good, but other courses have failed utterly to bring any order or continuity out of the various theories and marking systems of their section...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FITTING THE MOULD | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

...minor sports coach for the last seven years I feel that the Student Council has not made a good recommendation as far as my sports--tennis and squash--are involved. I wish to have it understood that I refer only to those two sports. Reasons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 4/22/1939 | See Source »

These doctors who say that doctors would not render good medical care if they were salaried (TIME, March 27) may speak for themselves, but there is one big professional group that would be shocked if its "patients" ever offered to pay individually for services. I refer to college professors (of which I am one) and other teachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...creative artist, but also the purposes and desired results of education in the fine arts. Certain traditional functions of the college art department have a degree of usefulness, to be sure, which is relatively independent of these world changes, because they have a value which remains relatively constant. I refer to the preparation of the scholar-specialist whose activity will add to the sum total of what is known about a man, a work of art, a period, a school. The future scholar learns the methodology of research; he acquires precision and a scrupulous honesty in using his materials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMITH TEACHER HITS ART INSTRUCTION | 4/15/1939 | See Source »

Official purpose of the display was to promote an international memorial to Christopher Columbus. In the Dominican Republic, people seldom speak of Trujillo by name. When they discuss their savior, they find it safer to refer to the local equivalent of "Mr. Jones" (as do Benito Mussolini's subjects). But when Senator Green & companions got home last week, it became clear that Trujillo had also done himself a good turn. Mr. Green regaled his acquaintances with accounts of the seven hospitals, the sanitation, the orderly well-being apparent in Ciudad Trujillo. A correspondent of the Washington News who accompanied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Jones's Relics | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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