Word: processing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduates, "Here is a great subject. We will help you, but we wish you to go as an explorer into this undiscovered country. . . . The emphasis would be changed from the absorption of easily memorized facts to independent and original study of a subject--the very kind of mental process that the undergraduates will be expected to carry on in later...
About this time, in colleges where certain traditions linger, the Freshmen are being received in to fellowship of classes by some such welcoming process as a pole-rush, tug-of-war, or cap-burning. Though lacking those familiar methods, Harvard has a substitute that serves in a somewhat similar capacity. The election today is in its way a formal recognition of the coming-of-age of the Freshman class. It is a reception at which the Class, Personified by its voting, presents itself to the rest of the college, and discloses it tastes and its character. If it goes...
...individual); has his school accomplishment measured by means of standardized tests in reading and arithmetic; and has his teacher's judgments and observations of the above recorded. His height, weight, and bodily proportions are also measured; his physical condition is observed; his teeth are examined to see how the process of dentition is coming along; and the ossification of the carpal bones is shown by X-ray photographs...
...advancement, surgery has had to turn for this lesson to the pariahs of the profession, witch-doctors, fakirs, and miracle-workers of semi-civilized races. The exhibitions of professional tricksters, who astonish their audiences by self-inflicted torture, are often made possible and painless by this simple process of deep breathing. A French doctor, observing some of these semi-savage rites in Africa, drew his own conclusion, and the test of actual experiment was a satisfactory proof...
...months ago the same dollar bought only 2000 marks. It is reasonably certain that wages in Germany have not more than doubled during the same period, hence the German laborer is now getting about one-seventh as much real value for his labor. The inevitable end of this process is revolution, followed by repudiation. Germany will join Russia in bankruptcy and challenge the world to come and collect their bills. It seems that both Germany and Russia will be shut off from commerce with any other outside nations except such others as may also go into bankruptcy as Austria...