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...helps to improve the technique of writing under fire. Furthermore, when all papers are returned, the onus of careful correcting rests more heavily on the assistants. For, when no examinations are given back, only the very bad or very serious-minded undergraduate ever lets loose a squawk about his grade...
Naturally enough, a good many of those who answered the Student Council tutoring school questionnaire, remarked that they didn't think the benefits of tutoring quite worth the price. Such skeptics will feel better on learning that the tutors themselves believe in them as satisfactory methods of raising that grade, even if they do get the service at cost. When the patent medicine man drinks his own poison, that's news...
...virtually a 1929 production basis by the tin cartel (TIME, Jan. 18). Last week, with export copper selling as high as 12.75? per lb., the international copper cartel called off production quotas to keep the price of the red metal from soaring higher and to discourage reopening of low-grade mines...
...often been found before but always quickly forgotten, that there is a high correlation between success in college and success in the Law School, and that there is a marked variance in the standards of performance required in the colleges. For example, one New England college of high grade sent 72 men with approved records of whom 62.5 per cent failed, and only two obtained an honor grade. Of the men who attained in college a mark under 82, three quarters failed, none received an honor grade, and less than 12 per cent received a respectable grade. Another New England...
...setting a "critical grade" between the promising and the less promising, President Conant said that subject matter is of little importance, the examination level and the intrinsic capacity of the student, whose intellectual places in the world are predestined at least by the time they enter college, being the significant factors. The only important requisites of a liberal education, in addition to good teaching which brings out the intellectual capacity of each student, are concentration in a limited field as opposed to smatterings of information, and a stimulating atmosphere which promotes discussion between men of different departments...