Word: rodding
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...seems to be pretty generally agreed. Even those who are forced to practice it usually apologize for it. If college publications have a place in the educational scheme of things as I am sure they have we should not apply to them the autocratic and paternalistic methods of rod and rote that education in general has long since discarded...
...feminine contingent will get their customary thrill out of Rod La Rocque and his antics as a deshing young adventurer for whom the bandits "stand and Deliver." This young man is always dashing and adventurous, or is supposed to be. He dashes around quite a bit in this picture with Lupe Velez, whom those who were so unfortunate as to see "The Gaucho" will remember. Together they put romance on the map in the Balkans, and cause Warner Oland, wh plays the renegade, to lead a miserable existence. This photoplay will be forgotten before one is past the portals...
Five hours and 20 minutes after the start, the Stutz coasted into the repair pits, where mechanics swarmed over it like ants on a picnic cake. The foreign car kept droning on its way. Soon the Stutz mechanics shook their heads; their pet had broken a connecting rod...
...forbid. I think that this is only another demonstration of the fact that the old maxim of "Spare the rod and spoil the child" has quite gone out of fashion of late. Its is easy to say that a college student is no longer a child: maybe not, in the accepted sense of the word, but he certainly is intellectually, in comparison to those professors whose duty it is to guide him on the paths of learning...
Therefore it is also their duty to apply the rod in the form of D's and E's when his academic endeavours fall below the standards set by the University. And the only way to find out whether his work is up to those standards is to compose examinations which shall thoroughly test his knowledge. Professor Rollins did no more than this; granted it was a good comprehensive test, but when a student enrolls in a course he is supposed to do the work of that course, and if he doesn't like...