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Surely, everyone can recite these reasonings by rote now. Everyone knows their validity and everyone with power to do so, save the Dean's Office, has applied them. The Housemasters Committee, for instance, approved them when it accepted the Student Council's proposal last year. Even the Deanery at Yale has extended the New Haven curfew, first as an experiment and then as a permanent innovation...
...bubbling fluency to Coghill's boldness in sacrificing words and word orders to rhythm and clarity. This is evident in the famed opening lines (usually as much as anyone remembers of the Tales)-Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote-which Coghill deftly turns thus: When the sweet showers, of April fall and shoot/ Down through the drought of March to pierce the root...
...includes tests on number facility, inductive reasoning with number material, spatial relations, non-verbal reasoning, verbal logic, rote memory, verbal fluency and mechanical reasoning. Each student is given a score for each one of the 21 aptitudes...
...disciples study Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, and learn the scriptures almost by rote. They interest people in the Center and in Feeney, sell the priest's books, distribute his new periodical, "The Catholic Observer," and carry on a hate campaign with an intensity born of real conviction...
...came to pass. During the war years Harvard men gradually got used to seeing girls in their classes; their minds were elsewhere. They were annoyed by what they believed the girls' academic methods to be, and still are slightly. They believed Radcliffe girls learned everything by rote, spewed it forth at exams, and got A's Or, rote learning failing, they would slide up to an instructor, display a little...