Word: reveals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to this modern prophetess, the lines on one's hands, which change every three months, can be made to reveal all the secrets of past and future after a scientific investigation. Even the ever pertinent questions of matrimonial nature, of home surroundings and of success in general can be definitely settled by a glance at one's hand...
...three or four years, each Bennington girl will reveal her accomplish ments to the faculty through "examinations, theses, or other objective tests." Should she be successful, she will receive as crisp and sightly an A. B. diploma as ever was given at Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Bryn Mawr...
Does it not seem to you that there is material for an editorial against the present practice of not returning final examination papers? Perhaps few students would take advantage of a change in method, but that does not deny the benefit. I take it that an examination is to reveal what one does not know as well as what one does, and many foresighted students would appreciate retaining their papers for future reference in divisional preparation. The present mid-years, in courses ending with the semester, are not returned, and this Spring will doubt less witness, the same condition unless...
...still hope, for Chicago has within her own windy limits the latent ability to raise her from her present dilemma. Her citizens have been making the grave mistake of overlooking hidden talent in their very midst, which through modesty and a reticence only natural under the circumstances, refuses to reveal itself. This refers to the unknown group of young men who have taken it upon themselves to relieve the monotony of their fellow citizens in a time of trouble with the free fireworks and similar public spectacles of the last few days. The remarkable thing is, that with the timidity...
...undesirability of the examination lies in its inordinate length which, by the physical limitations of writing, precludes any opportunity for the student to show a grasp beyond the major elements of each of the poets. Inquiries reveal that the average number of words which students, in varied fields answering various types of questions, can write without having to pause is not over 1,300 words per hour. These figures will be admitted to be high, for many men questioned were amazed to find that others did write at such a rate. By applying these figures to the English 72 examination...