Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lecturer raises his pointer to a stereopticon view of Chinese buildings. In a crisp, piping voice he exclaims: "And I said to him, as one Occidental to one Oriental, 'May I visit your pagoda?' And he said to me, as one Oriental to one Occidental, 'You may.' " Three hundred undergraduate eyes closely follow the pictures, 300 ears the discourse. The pagoda is visited, described, its structural and esthetic significance intelligibly explained...
...literature on the subject matter of even the most highly specialized courses is so vast that two or three weeks scarcely gives one time to organize his reading campaign. A lengthening of the reading periods, accompanied by a cessation of laboratory work, might help matters from the point of view of the reading period, but in Comparative Anatomy, for example, the work is covered all too quickly as it is, and cutting a month from the schedule would be disastrous. It would seem more desirable to disregard the reading period in the majority of courses with extensive laboratory periods...
...what a student knows, or does not know, with the object of inflicting a penalty to the deficient. Were the examination used in the light of showing the students his weaknesses, that he might correct them, cramming would cease. Since in our own college some instructors hold this very view and have seen it worked out successfully, it cannot be tagged "just theory" and laid aside. Normal School News
...view of the general dissatisfaction with the lecture-system, it would be an excellent idea to recall this practice from the desuetude into which it has fallen. The exchange of classes might even counteract the soporific influences that the present lecture-system, unfortunately exerts. Cornell Daily...
...Spokane: "It is really brilliant, like those crystal chandeliers." Said he of Springfield: "It's an old middle western town, one-third African, full of tradition and swarming with neighbors willing to tell my [new young] wife where my mother kept the mousetrap and where she hung the view of Venice." Poet Stoddard King of Spokane wrote farewell verses...