Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Subscriber Heilner described his toothache cure as follows: "How could a man after boarding the 5:08 p. m. train for the seashore relieve himself of an acute toothache which suddenly seized him after the train had left station past help of all drugstores, dentists? "One method would seem to be as follows: 1) Read papers furiously in effort to distract mind. 2) Hold small quantity of whiskey in mouth extracted from pocket flask. 3) Plaster offending molar with chewing-gum. "On Aug. 12 the writer had cause to be greatly annoyed after trying the above methods without results...
...this week is too serious a matter for a child, even a child of the Forecast blood. The stars have been speaking to me during this week, but they have not been as coherent as usual. They seem to tell me to look for five touchdowns or more in the Stadium today, but they don't say who will make them. I am a loyal Harvard man--big enough to overlook the few times that Coach Horween has failed to follow my suggestions to the letter--he's usually been sorry afterward--so I hope that three of those five...
...very familiar phrase, "cram up for the quiz and forget it." They read up the chapters assigned the night before the quiz. There is no time for taking notes. They go to the section meeting remembering words, phrases, and paragraphs-mere print-and spit out all those which seem to have any application to the questions, with a sensation of relief at being rid of them. And, of course, they forget that mite because they accumulated only words and phrases which were not organized into any definite ideas on the subject. When the final examination comes there are no notes...
...There seem to be two functions of the present mush maligned examination system. First, to disclose the extend of the student's knowledge. Second, to make him study. In the graduate schools, where the students are more mature and experienced, the first purpose is sufficiently accomplished by one examination at the end of each course. There is no need for the second use one studies or flunks. One examination would be sufficient to disclose the knowledge of a college course too, but the stimulus of frequent examinations is felt by all perhaps erroneously to be necessary in order...
...There seems to be little room left for anything but whole hearted approval after Mr. Giles has stated his objections to the present method of education and examination of the young. His criticism is well founded and his corrective suggestion would seem to obviate the fault. If there must be elementary survey courses, covering tremendous fields with the speed and inevitableness of an express train, then the journey should be conducted as intelligently as possible. To continue the figure, such courses would do well, to adopt Mr. Rich's plan in the cause of a better remembrance of the itinerary...