Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five weeks. In that time the student has adjusted himself to the mechanics of the course and little more. The actual knowledge he has assimilated or is even supposed to have assimilated is comparatively minute. The outcome is this: a man who is gifted with imaginative powers may write an examination which compares very favorably with that of a man who has done his work with regularity and precision. Both receive the same grade. That grade influences the mid-year or final mark in varying degrees but it is safe to say that seldom is it quite ignored. Thus...
...would not have a leg for the debate to run on; and this might diminish, if not eclipse, the gayety of the nation." If Senator Fess quoted President Coolidge exactly in the statement, "I will not be nominated," Dr. Van Dyke or his peer at grammar could write the New York Times another letter pointing out that the Coolidge renomination question is now definitely settled in the negative, since "I will not" expresses determination whereas "I shall not" would have been simple prediction...
...Into this mechanical mind" said Dr. Bush, "can be fed the conditions of a mathematical problem too complex for the human brain to master, and it will promptly grind out the answer and write it down, as efficiently as a machine takes in lumber and chemicals and produces finished boxes of matches...
...Randolph Hearst's pet property of all his newspapers, will be edited from now on by Victor F. Watson. Mr. Watson sits at the desk left vacant when Philip A. Payne strode confidently from the Mirror shop to the tiny cabin of Old Glory to ride to Rome and write the story for the Mirror. The airplane dived into the Atlantic; and the greatest of tabloid editors died on assignment (TIME, Sept...
...wish too you would write a stirring editorial on our cheers. We have over and over again the same heavy un-Collegey cheer. "Yes, Harvard is too dignified to have a peppy cheer" I hear people say. Other Colleges certainly show far more the spirit of jolly College students and put more zest and snap in their cheering...