Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Student Council Committee on the Freshman Year a few years ago expressed the opinion that the especially capable members of a large Freshman course should be given more advanced and independent reading than the others with provision for small group meetings similar to tutorial conferences in order to discuss their assignments. Such a plan of preceptorial conferences for the especially competent students has been employed in such courses as History 1 and at times in English 28 with most satisfactory results. In courses where the preceptorial plan of individual or small group conferences does not seem possible or advisable...
...lecture he emphasized the point that the question of communism versus capitalism will be fought out neither in Europe nor in America, but in "the fluid East, our greatest potential market." He went on to discuss the economic contrast between the United States and the European nations, describing it as a contrast in standards of living, in which the higher standards set in America make for greater economic soundness...
...hours at a stretch. The material is at hand. They dig into it on their own. Nobody can avoid digging in as he would avoid preparing for a recitation. There is nothing else to do. Then, when the study portion of the period is over, the students discuss what they have managed to find out. All through the two hours, a professor sits by. Not to see that the students work (there is no need of that) and not to meddle with them while they work. He is there merely to help out anybody who gets stuck, and, during...
...feel I could win over you in any name-calling contest. I've driven mules and called hogs. . . ." Senator Borah warned against "the day of reckoning" when the Farm Board comes to sell its wheat at a loss. Chairmen Legge replied: "Don't ask me to discuss cyclones. You know how scientists have defined a cyclone as superheated hot air that always runs amuck...
PROSPERITY, Wealth, Happiness, these obviously are the goods held out to the American citizen today," says James Bayard Clark at the outset of his examination of "Our New Progress." He then proceeds to discuss the subject in two essays, "Cornucopia" and "Caritas." In each he finds the status quo woefully unsound and the promise of "Our New Progress" a sop to take in the great American public...