Word: answer
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Murray, who was essaying a swift sketch, was approached by one of the library guards, who asked, "Are you on the CRIMSON?" Suspicious were aroused when the answer was in the negative. When Murray stated that he was on the Lampoon, he was hurried off with the admonition, "You can't do that in here...
Almost as completely a failure, it seemed to me, had been the recitation system under which the teacher acts as inquisitor and marks or grades the student on his ability to answer occasional questions on material he has been assigned to study himself. The student needs the teacher's help, not when he has learned or failed to learn his assignment, but during the process of learning. Under the recitation system as practiced in most colleges the classroom becomes a sort of criminal court where the teacher--as judge, prosecutor, and detective--attempts to find out, often unsuccessfully, whether...
...Harvard Law School told members of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau in an address delivered last night. "One may wonder why a legal aid should be necessary in this great republic of the poor, famous over the world for helping the underdog, but there are three reasons to answer him," Dean Pound declared. "First is the condition of our legal and political institutions; second is our legal and political thinking, and the third is the economic condition under which our lawyers practice...
...Erin, Sir Thomas Lipton stepped away from his guests and the reporters on board gathered round him at the rail. All day they had been asking him if he would challenge again and he had refused to answer. Now he felt the time had come to speak. He looked tired and had abandoned his familiar pose of gayety...
...expected Aviation Corp. to show a profit for the first half of this year. The only question was, "how great will be the loss?" Last week appeared the answer: $3,236,317.95; loss for 1929 (Avco was organized March...