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...more mature and experienced, the first purpose is sufficiently accomplished by one examination at the end of each course. There is no need for the second use one studies or flunks. One examination would be sufficient to disclose the knowledge of a college course too, but the stimulus of frequent examinations is felt by all perhaps erroneously to be necessary in order not to place too much responsibility for doing his work on the under classman. It is probably, in the main, sound sense because the underclassman usually over estimates his own ability to absorb information in a lump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALUMNUS SURVEYS PRESENT QUIZ SYSTEM AND FINDS IT WANTING IN EFFICIENCY | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

Granting the necessity of giving frequent examinations, why should not a type of examinations, why should not a type of examinations be given that will be of some benefit to the students instead of being an unmitigated aggravation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALUMNUS SURVEYS PRESENT QUIZ SYSTEM AND FINDS IT WANTING IN EFFICIENCY | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

...kopeks a pood, after paying 20% taxes on profits, 5 to 45% royalties and higher wages for workmen. Now, he continued, the production of crude oil costs double, despite the confiscation of property, no taxation or royalties, lower wages to workmen and lack of strikes, which hitherto were frequent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Doomed? | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

While reading to President Calles President Coolidge wore, instead of his familiar black-rimmed spectacles, a shiny new gold pince-nez with long black cord. Observers realized that the change would not necessitate the striking of a new Coolidge medal,* since eyeglasses are not a frequent enough accessory to the Coolidge features. He wears them only when reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...only have the buildings been subjected to the processes of reconstruction but the innards of the Yard itself have been searched by all the wracking devices known to heating agencies. Frequent pits disclose the path of the tortuous tunnel which carries heating conduits to new and old buildings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tradition Falls Before Carpenter and Plasterer in Hollis and Matthews Halls-Yard Is Wrecked by Tunneling Devices | 9/30/1927 | See Source »

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