Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Does it not seem to you that there is material for an editorial against the present practice of not returning final examination papers? Perhaps few students would take advantage of a change in method, but that does not deny the benefit. I take it that an examination is to reveal what one does not know as well as what one does, and many foresighted students would appreciate retaining their papers for future reference in divisional preparation. The present mid-years, in courses ending with the semester, are not returned, and this Spring will doubt less witness, the same condition unless...
Three men, Altenburg of Bowdoin, John Mackin '32 and J. D. Allen '31 tied for second, and the points scored against them were counted to determine their respective positions. By this method, the Bowdoin man took second, with Mackin in third place...
...that a strictly ethical method of trapping an honest or almost honest bootlegger? It is a subject that demands full and free discussion by the Ford Hall Forum. Boston Review
...principal Roman schools where the Montessori plan is in effect are the Via Trionfale school, the Via Fuà Fusinata school Casa del Bambini, the convent school in the Via Giusti. In none of these institutions has Dottoressa Montessori actively participated since 1914 because of bureaucratical opposition to her method. Although she dislikes travel save by automobile or airplane, she went abroad the previous year. In England she fared well, establishing institutions, receiving an honorary D.Litt. from Durham University. In the state of Victoria, Australia, mental defectives are corrected by her system. South Australia subsidizes Montessori kindergartens...
...Montessori plan in that it stresses the child's supervised intellectual growth rather than its undirected development. At Columbia the pupil is taken to see a hangar full of airplanes which he is encouraged to copy in clay, wax or crayon in the classroom. Under the Dewey method, the child has opportunity for creative expression which the less plastic Montessori equipment does not allow...