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...fully developed tutorial system such as the CRIMSON outlined on Friday and Saturday of last week, one of the initial problems to be solved would be that of examinations. Since the course system would be abolished and since it would create a chaotic situation for every tutor to grade his own tutees, the only solution would be the creation of a special board in every department to set the examinations in the manner that the Senior divisionals are set at present. These examinations, coming at the end of the year, would contain a great number of alternative questions to allow...
...concentrating in English the reading as assigned is invaluable. To one who is not concentrating in English the reading may prove interesting depending on the individual's taste. The student in this course may pass surreptitiously by some of the reading without materially affecting his grade. A rather formal souffle rendered more palatable by Professor Greenough's interpretation and presentation...
...Freshman required intellect. A week later at a section meeting he got it back marked "E" and also annotated "This is the worst thing I have ever seen in English A. Please see me at the end of the hour." The Freshman was more incensed at the unnatural grade on the paper than his discretion could bear. So he made a clean breast of the affair, including some covered references to the instructor's ability to grade...
...Republican Senate appointed a committee headed by Nebraska's Robert Beecher Howell. now dead, to investigate campaign expenditures. Also last year Senator Long, by a feat of political rough-&-tumble. had his henchman John Overton, a Grade B Representative, nominated (and automatically elected) to Louisiana's other seat in the U. S. Senate. Defeated for renomination. Edwin Sidney Broussard spent his last days in Washington crying that he had been politically raped and robbed...
...most of the credit for Standard Time in the U. S. Dr. Dowd saw most of the credit for dividing the whole world into 24 time zones go to Sir Sandford Fleming, a Canadian railway engineer and university chancellor. As a final irony. Dr. Dowd was killed in a grade-crossing accident...