Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been freely claimed by past Committees that in no sense are these free reviews meant to compete with the tutoring schools and that at least should be the truth. As an ideal, a free review of a Freshman course should not cram the facts but, acting on the supposition that the men have done the fundamental work, it should outline the course as a whole in order to teach men where to lay the emphasis. In short, it should be a two-hour session in how to study...
...study session they are of real service to the whole college community, and their value can be still further increased by establishing the reviews when they are really needed--before the November hours. If there is a desire for a review before midyears, how much greater is the need before those dreaded hours which in so many cases determine the whole course of a college career...
...These reviews were inaugurated in January, 1936 and were designed to co-ordinate courses for Freshmen who could not afford to avail themselves of any other method of review. The results of the first year were regarded as encouraging, but the reviews were abandoned last January in all courses except Biology...
...into matter which the electron would absorb, increasing its mass. The increase might be any amount at all, depending on the initial energy of the cosmic ray and the variable quantity of matter produced. Dr. Jauncey sent off a letter on these speculations to the editor of the Physical Review...
...salesman. Doc Robinson has never forgotten how, in his behind-the-counter drugstore days, he once sold five one-gallon jugs of mineral oil to a man who came in to buy a pint. Besides its own building in Moscow, Psychiana owns three drugstores, a daily paper, the News-Review. An accomplished organist, the founder has an 800-pipe Wurlitzer in his big Moscow home, invariably includes organ solos (preferably Brahms) in his infrequent lectures. Though in those lectures Doc Robinson is inclined to blast the Christian churches, thus annoying many of his hearers, he has Christian charities at home...