Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spreading the student's thinking throughout the term. It must also provide an alternative which will permit grading at least as fair and sensitive as that which prevails under the examination system. This alternative can be derived from one of the most rewarding innovations of the General Education courses: short, frequent written assignments during the term. It is difficult to admit the possibility of education without examinations, but a careful analysis of papers as a substitute for tests shows them to meet all the requirements...
...Five short papers--1000 to 1500 words--and one longer one might be the standard. The key to their success would be the assignment of definite topics, with perhaps several to choose from, for each essay. Instead of the small and specialized subjects that are found in most "term papers," these essays would deal with broad aspects of that part of the course which had already been covered. The topics could, in fact, be drawn from the reserve of final examination questions. The student could "agree or disagree with above statement, using examples from the material of the course...
Last week Polk left his Salonika hotel. He never came back. Three days after he left, his wife arrived from Athens, expecting to join him for a short trip into Macedonia. She found his typewriter and other equipment in his room; that ruled out the theory that he had already gone on his mission to Markos. The same day, police got his identity card in the mail...
...will fight, if you are strong and skillful enough to kill your antagonist, if you can govern or influence the common herd ... if you stand by your opinions unflinchingly, if you do your level best on whiskey, if you are a devil of a fellow with women, if, in short, you show vigorous masculine attributes, he will grant you his respect...
...Author. Jean Malaquais is a short, tense French socialist. He is the author of a novel, Men from Nowhere, which won the Renaudot Prize in Paris, and of an account of his experiences in the French army, War Diary, which André Gide hailed as "an extraordinary document on the collapse of France...