Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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"These cooperative students are regularly paid workingmen for half their third year in the Engineering School. While one is off in some machine shop, electrical department, or plant akin to his professional line, another is spending two months of intensive class-room work. When these eight or nine weeks are...
"The outside work is supervised by a coordinator who visits the various plants and talks with all parties concerned. Another influential factor in making the industrial experience count for all it can is a set of comprehensive questionnaires or syllabi which are compiled for the purpose of guiding a cooperative...
"These reports are followed up by short talks and discussions during the first period that a group of cooperative students returns to the school proper. This is for the purpose of bringing individual experiences into a "melting pot," where they may be modified in comparison with other viewpoints.
"Furthermore, it is the intention to conduct a cooperative course in more than merely the name. Therefore meddling is farthest from the intention of the School. If a student has reason to think that any question might be considered annoying to his superiors, he is always asked to discard such...
"It should be understood that the industrial work is superior to the ordinary summer work in that it is selected to suit the student's needs, and is supervised so as to make the short time equivalent to much more than might be expected. Furthermore, the alternate exposure to theory...