Word: rememberers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About one child in ten is a "strephosymbolic" (twister of symbols). He tends to see or remember things backwards. Most common form of this peculiarity is to read was for saw. Other strephosymbolics are "mirror writers," who write backwards, from right to left. This phenomenon still baffles psychologists. Most widely...
A hard runner and good defense man, he is expected to give the Britishers plenty to worry about. Constable's speed and shifty open-field running show to advantage in rugby, where no blocking is allowed. A hard tackler, as those who played football against Princeton last year will remember...
Like William James, Professor Lake complains of the worship of degrees, and very rightly. The taking of courses for credit, the pursuit of degrees and titles for themselves, has been long recognized as one of the worst features of American Education from Normal School up. Every teacher knows how general...
In the Union there are periods during each meal when the student waiters, waitresses, and kitchen are rushed by the horde of Freshmen which pours into and crowds every table and chair. These times are the rush hour at breakfast, luncheon, and dinner. They not only strain the speed of...
He also flayed the American practice of taking certain courses for credit and claimed that in most cases the student, five years after college, failed to remember anything significant about them. In the matter of preparatory education he said there was no reason for teaching elementary language courses in colleges...