Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extent of making grades, or rather what grades should indicate, only a means for this other end, will they isolate themselves in their academic pursuits from everyone except at class time, or will they take the middle course and make college life include both the varsity ticket and the textbook...
...those whose schedules conflict with English 28, English 79 is a good alternative. Planned for the study of literature by types rather than by periods, this course has the advantage of including reading in no textbook of English literature. The study of classic selections from poetry, prose, and the drama is enjoyable and not difficult. It ought to be noted that English 79 has always been run as an elementary course. Anyone who already has a moderately thorough knowledge of English literature would be well-advised to attempt more advanced work in a special period. Although Freshmen may not ordinarily...
...course, it being the belief of Mr. Hersey, who conducts the course, that skill in writing is obtained only by writing. That is why the student listens to no cut-and-dried lectures on the art of writing or is burdened with no definite number of pages of a textbook to read. He attends two very informal lectures a week, at which Mr. Hersey discusses some "genre", the short story, poetry, one act plays, the essay, etc., not as short stories, poems, one-act plays, or essays but rather the mechanics of the writing of such "genres". Students who have...
...hope of being kicked upstairs. ... It is a work book. In the hands of a lusty toiler, it will show solid profits." No trilling Pippa of pedagogy, no profound Paracelsus either, Professor Pitkin is nothing if not practical, hates waste, is hot after results. In this Pitkinesque textbook, thumb-printed with many a helpful hint, anecdote, rule, bristling with statistics and questionnaires, you may spend some lively hours, may even learn something about learning...
Ghosts of rum-tippling, slave-swopping Early Americans arose last week, as Evolution has often done to plague contemporary pedagogy. To the School Board of Franklin. Pa. had been recommended a new textbook for the seventh and eighth grades-Socialized History of the U. S. by Charles Van Nest and Henry Smith. The board read the book, was divided in its opinion. Especially objectionable seemed two passages...