Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ancient prejudices that cluster about Shylock, the part is an iron-clad one; and that. since the play is either tragedy or comedy depending on the audience, it might be done as well by Eddie Cantor as by a Great Actor. However true such flippancies may be about the type-part of Shylock, they are certainly untrue of the play's great character-part, Portia. And the Arliss tour was memorable for its introduction of the youngest Portia, and one of the best, on record...
...student without demanding too frequent accounts of his stewardship. But in the midst of this movement there still remain a few courses which, in their irritating insistence upon periodical reckonings, are out of step with the times. Such a one, for example, is History 12. Here quizzes of the type given Freshman sections in elementary courses follow one another at fortnightly intervals; when there is no quiz, there is a short paper to be written, or a map to be handed in. The course becomes only a series of mileposts to be passed as quickly and easily as possible...
...History 12 is only representative if a type of teaching still too common. The major harm of such a system of small duties to the professor is that they discourage thought. No forty-five minute quiz, no five page report offers a chance to think. The discharge of such duties resolves into a test of memory or an assembling of a number of encyclopaedic facts in order...
...supposedly advanced courses the strict accountability which is needed in elementary survey courses. But this does not work; it is not fair, for example, to the Senior busy with a distinction thesis and the demands of divisionals to load him with small jobs which are wholly foreign to the type of thinking which he must do in his last college year...
...meets will open at 3.30 o'clock on March 26 with the fraternity contests. There will be five of these, including a 100-yard relay race, a diving "6", a 50-yard free style, 50-yard back stroke, and a 50-yard breast stroke. They will allow one more type of competition are staging close races in the basketball leagues...