Word: system
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circulation by the Monthly and now substantiated by careful logic in the lead article of the latest Progressive. The statement is true. It is correct that examinations which require little more than cramming encourage the existence of tutoring schools. But it is doubtful that an attack on the examination system would supply a solution immediate enough to meet such a pressing problem...
...Progressive points out, an ideal examination system -- which educators have been seeking for many years -- is highly desirable. There is no doubt at all that tests requiring "an application of knowledge to specific problems rather than mere recitation of knowledge" would destroy the illegitimate functions of the tutoring schools. However, since few such exams have been devised, it seems impractical to attack the tutoring system from such an idealistic angle...
...gone. It makes little difference whether or not tutoring is really advantageous to the student. Regardless of how useless a review--consisting of oversimplified digests of lecture notes--may be, persuasive advertisements make him imagine that actual benefit can be had. This situation would exist even under a system of perfect examinations. In printing an advertisement of a parker-Cramer review, the Progressive is helping to foster the exaggerated demand for spoon-fed education...
CRIMSON editors and candidates will be distributing and collecting the blanks for the entire lunch and dinner eating periods at the Union Dining Hall and at Dudley Hall. Students will be requested to fill out one blank for each course, while a new system of itemized answers will facilitate quick consideration of the queries...
...number of variable stars were discovered in the systems by Walter Baade and Edmund P. Hubble using the powerful talescope of Mount Wilson Observatory. It was then found that older Harvard sky photographs taken at the South African station had recorded some of these variable stars. Determination of the distance of the new system followed...