Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...march of education is a restless one, it knows no barriers of race or nationality in its swift progress. The center of gravity, political, economic, educational, is shifting westward still, contemporary sages tell us. It would be definitely valuable, then, to disprove Mr. Kipling's stern address to the white race. With such a shift comes necessary readjustment. And only by the exchange of understanding for ignorance can readjustment be facilitated...
...substance of which is contained in these sentences: "It will help the committee on scholarships if you will send us on this sheet an estimate of Mr. So-and-So's ability, as well as your opinion of his personality." The other question reads: "If you are able, to tell us anything of his financial status, please include this information...
17th. Slept but troubled at my stomach all the last part of the night, and yet I know not why 'less it be from sleeping so far up in the air (I being on the top floor of the Chrysler Building) for I have heard tell of persons in skyscrapers getting sick from the swaying of the building; but I would not swear this was my case for also now I remember I did eat a lobster for dinner: Therefore up, and soon comes----and I to apologize for being caught breechless but he did not mind and took...
This cram, psychologists tell us, does aid students to pass a factual examination. But most of the facts are soon forgotten. Long-time retention suffers. The cram, too, helps little in courses in which a student must interpret theories. The moral, professors say, is "Be prepared"--all through the quarter...
That's the whole trouble, isn't it? Those professors are too good at giving other people ideas. When they get their hands on a bunch of students you can't tell what might happen. They even let the students think sometimes...