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...relaxing in his Beverly Hills home with his pretty wife and his new son Joseph, born last September. He had also "taken a good look at myself," discovered that he had played some works so often that in recent years he found it hard not to play them by rote-"without thinking...
Cotton. Southern Methodist, with help from Doak Walker and Kyle Rote, chopped heavier Oregon down to size...
...basic question of comparative study habits, excellence, and aptitude for reading and examinations has been shown in sharper light by this year's experience. Harvard students have traditionally maintained that 'Cliffedwellers are grinds--that they study by rote, that they think little if at all, that they put the fishhooks on the end of every grading curve. Some of these contentions are apparently borne out by the first year of practical experience. The Radcliffe Dean's office agrees that the new system is strange for the girls--"They feel a little lost in those big classes"--but claims that they...
...occupying powers, as the Secretary suggests, reduce their forces below the present strength. Redemption can come only under strict supervision. Democracy is just a word to the German today, and it will never become more merely by flat. For though the statics of democracy may be learned by rote, the dynamics must be bred into a people over a period of generations--merely teaching the Germans to hold elections is not enough. The occupation will be completed successfully not when the Germans act in a democratic manner, but when they think and feel in a democratic manner as well...
...parenthetic thoughts occur. Was the success of some of the professional tutors due entirely to "unethical" or counter-educational practices, or was it basically an indictment of Harvard teaching? Since the college examinations are not affairs of fact and rote, it cannot be said that we trained the memory and impoverished the understanding. It is possible that, in brief compass, we taught our students to think on fundamentals sufficiently well to impress their academic mentors. If this be a fault, I ery "Peccavi...