Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that interest in Freshman intramural baseball arises each year is ample testimony that the project is worth while. As such, it is worth doing well; dormitory managers should make a real effort to keep interest at a high pitch and men who sign up to play should report at a majority of the games. It would be an unjust imposition on the H.A.A. if Yardlings allow their league to fizzle again when a small amount of conscientious effort would keep it alive and successful...
Instructors too often do not present sufficiently complete course reviews, leaving the student "hopelessly involved in a mass of facts and ideas," according to the Bureau's report. Cramming is resorted to as a "final, desperate measure...
Poor continuity and organization characterizes many textbooks. Many present the material in "too ponderous and technical a manner for the average student's comprehension," the report finds. Lectures are sometimes not couched "in terms understandable to the average student...
Quoting Dr. John Black Johnson, retired dean of the University of Minnesota, the report states that "the 52 per cent of all students who can never become successful . . . would never pass at all but for the use of college outlines or other supplementary aids to study...
...three round table sessions will meet Friday afternoon, Saturday morning, and Saturday afternoon, for three hours apiece. At 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon there will be a plenary session at which each round table chairman will give a ten minute report and a guest speaker will summarize the entire Conference...