Word: successful
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...receive an answer immediately in perfect German. "I definitely do not want my students to translate the question into English, formulate an answer, and then translate this back into German; I want them to think directly in German," Stein states. Although it is yet too early to evaluate the success of this limited oral-aural approach in reading courses, the new method certainly represents an advance over the tedious--and less educational--process of grammatical exposition. With the rapid fire of question and answer, classes become both challenging and interesting...
Most important to the success of the single wing offense, is a big, strong, and durable line. While the Tiger forwards are outweighed by their Crimson counterparts, it is questionable whether they will also be outplayed by them...
...page in each course--are sent to the students twice a year but not to the parents. Slightly less detailed reports are sent to the graduate schools to which some of the girls eventually go. The principal virtue of excluding grades is that the students tend to equate success with the accumulation of ideas rather than with the accumulation of good reports...
President Tweed's principal functions are representing the college and acting in a fund-raising capacity. Financially, he concedes, it is "a great handicap to have female alumnae," for it is their husbands that usually control the purse-strings. Active contributing by parents of undergraduates, however, adds to the success of an annual fund which generally nets about $100,000, sufficient to meet the college's basic needs...
...cross country team left for New York yesterday, and the harriers resembled nothing so much as sheep being led to slaughter. This afternoon, the Crimson will compete in the Heptagonal meet at Van Cortlandt park without Jed Fitzgerald or Jack Benjamin. A fourth-place finish would be a smashing success...