Word: assignment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...middle or even a little below the middle intelligence. In an average class of 75 men, the brightest scholars will do in thirty minutes, a lesson upon which the slowest students will labor for there hours. That is a ratio of one to six. The instructor must assign lessons suited for a two-hour...
...means of checking up on the lodging houses. An office of this kind could make some such arrangement as the Business School made this year; it could take an option on enough rooms to take care of the overflow from the Charles River dormitories, thereby making it possible to assign rooms to all Freshmen except those who enter after the fall examinations...
There is another more important side of the question. These regulations, to a few satiric rogues appear to have been inaugurated on the general principle that since the students do not at present cover the work required of them, the obvious panacea is to assign more. Really, this is an inference supported by the facts. The student feels that quite enough is required of him already. He is not in a receptive mood...
...friends and foes of tutorial work. At present there seems to be no co-ordination between tutors; some meet their advisees for ten minutes monthly, while others hold two hours of conferences a week. As long as this irregular condition remains, it is impossible for the college office to assign course credit for tutorial work,--the reform suggestion which seems most popular among the undergraduate body...
...committee of five men elected by the Norwegian Storthing to confer the Nobel Prize is far more likely that we to place President Wilson where he properly ranks--above the place our harsh opinions would assign and below that suggested by the adoration of war-stricken peoples. The whole country will-feel proud to know that for the third time a citizen of the United States has been judged by the Norwegian committee to be worthy of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize...