Word: sixteener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weekly magazine, devoted to giving the "irreducible minimum" of news facts. Its founders, two 1920 editors of the Yale "News", have collected a staff of young newspaper-men, including three from Harvard, and have proceeded on a basis of "complete organization". Briefly, all popular interests are divided into sixteen departments, such as Sports, Foreign Affairs, Books, Plays, Crimes; and a specialist covers each. The articles will be short and straightforward, easily accessible, giving facts in their simplest shape; and, there will be no editorials. The editors publish their prejudices in the first issue, and thereafter hold their peace. Appropriately, they...
Anyone who has had any time to spend at a railroad station has found himself sooner or later on the penny scales comparing his weight and height at sixteen or twelve with the standard given. When the comparison does not turn out to his satisfaction he decides that the average given cannot be accurate, and in the past his conclusion has been correct. It is with the aim of determining these standards more exactly that the Graduate School of Education has undertaken in Dean Holmes' words a "research enterprise of major importance...
...keep the proper balance the "dead-wood" must be eliminated, the interest in scholarship maintained and, as the writer in the Advocate aptly expresses it, a spirit of inquisitiveness revived. His plan to raise the requirements for an A.B. degree to four Bs in a total of sixteen courses that a man must pass, with no more than two Ds, and an allowance for failure of one whole course, undoubtedly would prune effectually if not entirely remove the "deadwood". But it is very doubtful whether the mental growth of the remainder would be permanently stimulated. Men would have...
Following its traditional policy of rewarding unsung patriots,--peasant families of more than sixteen children for example,--the French government through the Ministry of Agriculture has undertaken to glorify honest and persistent toil by awarding to any farmer-proprietor who can prove that his forbears have cultivated the same plot of land for over a hundred years the order of "la Merite Agricole". Somewhat to the consternation of the Ministry the number of applicants who have come forward with proofs is relatively overwhelming. Some families claim that they have won the award several times over. One peasant has presented proof...
...entrance, rather than the present figure of eighteen or nineteen. The examinations as now prepared are not above the capacity of "any youth of ordinary ability." This would mean, correspondingly, that a fairly large number endowed with more than that ordinary ability, would be entering each year at sixteen and fifteen, while several (the present fifteen-year-olds) would come at fourteen or under. Unfortunately, the examinations test only mental development; they offer no estimate of character or physique, and it is already plain to be seen that the first often grows far faster than the other...