Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement by the Department of History and Literature that the Bible and Shakespeare examinations are to be advanced to the final reading period during the sophomore year is a very welcome one. The Department, always more advanced in this respect than the others, leads the way in a reform for which the CRIMSON has long agitated...
...necessary general back-ground is provided at a reasonable time during the college course. Whether or not the May reading period is the best time for the examinations can be decided by experience, but the important fact is that a practical step has been made to complete the reform of this situation in at least one Department. Now that this step has been taken it is logical that other branches of the college should follow suit. In the English Department and in all others concerned with the same problem, all the examinations in Bible and Shakespeare, Ancient Authors...
...youngest marshal (Petain), stopped briefly at Trinidad last week on the maiden Caribbean cruise of the French liner Colombie, was welcomed by British officials and most of the populace. Trinidad understood what brought him. A courier had just arrived from Cayenne, French Guiana, with word of a drastic administrative reform inaugurated by Governor Bouge. Most of French Guiana is unexplored. Preliminary surveys show traces of gold, silver, lead, copper. There are phosphate deposits and valuable rosewood forests. But French Guiana, as all the world knows, is also France's penal colony. Young Frenchmen wall not go there to colonize...
Since 1929, when the call rate averaged 7.792%, banking profits have diminished, largely because they can find no place to employ their surplus funds. Brokers' loans last week made a new low since 1921, gave the Clearing House an opportunity to make its reform with little chance of repercussions. Bankers were pleased and a wobbly prop was removed from under the credit structure. With the New York Clearing House leading the way similar rulings were expected in other money centres to prevent loan 'legging from starting again...
...educational experiment of a Syracuse professor, who has abolished note-taking during his lectures and substituted a printed resume of his course for distribution among the students taking it. At that time we reviewed the lecture situation at Princeton and sought to establish the desirability of such a reform as that initiated by Professor Vaughan. It was our contention that the ideal of the Princeton lecture-precept system was to develop the student's faculty of interpreting and associating the basic text-book data of a course, that this ideal was not being subserved under present conditions, when in many...