Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manager Bob Bennett will submit a report of the year's efforts to the H.A.A. before the end of the term in an attempt to secure reinstatement for polo as a minor sport next year. The H.A.A. would then arrange a schedule and include the mounties on its list of official College athletic events, but would not back them financially...
...utopia, then, should fulfill the requirement of 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...
...have the same chance at improvement. And let no one fear that such essays would allow anyone to escape without doing the reading: a good paper would require as much work as does a good examination. The student's thinking processes would certainly be stimulated more often during a term than most men's are under the examination system. And the more frequent the thought, the less superficial his knowledge of the course...
...annoyed government is cracking down. From Movie Star Jorge Negrete (who had bought it innocently enough), officials took a brand-new Cadillac, and announced that owners of other smuggled cars faced the same treatment plus a six-year jail term and a $1,000 fine. Last week, motorists driving into Mexico were asked to surrender car-ownership certificates at the border. Federal inspectors also moved in on bribe-taking customs men who connived in letting big shipments through, arrested five customs officers...