Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professor examined her textbook, and decided that it was not. The Diocese of Cleveland agreed. The professor told Baldwin-Wallace's 163 Catholic students that they must resign from the college. "If my doctor tells me to eat beef," he explained, "and a waiter in a restaurant says he has only pork, I don't stay and fight with him. I just walk out." By week's end 65 Catholic students had packed their bags and left...
Asserting that "We're business-like but informal," he wasted no time getting down to work. The system was simple; he would scan the textbook (Binkley's "Realism and Nationalism") page by page and dictate a condensation of the material, slowly enough for me to copy into my notebook...
...confined our "study" to the textbook, and at the end of two hours had covered approximately half of it. A session of equal length the next morning finished off Binkley, leaving only a few chapters in Schaprio's History of Europe in the Nineteenth Century" to be done...
...autumn madness and before the mid-winter grand. Vag stopped fairly on the lift overing of show and thought of what the newspapers called his postwar readjustment. It had been made. Now he could sit calmly in his armchair and spend a straight afternoon reading a novel or textbook with a lot loss of the old restlessness. He was in the college life for what it was worth...
Such a student, lacking guidance, can easily become confused by the wide range of concentration requirements and specialize to an extreme degree. He can dispatch his general courses in a single year, spend the rest of his college tenure concentrating in a single field, and graduate textbook technician, without the large store of general knowledge the system hopes to offer. If this man were a candidate for honors, he would be inclined to place a heavy value on concentration under the existing system. Charged with extensive preparation for General Examinations, the undergraduate often feels bound to take the maximum number...