Word: sectionally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conversation with the President. He urged Democrats not to play into the hands of the Republican minority, got them to put off final action on the bill until this week, promised "everything humanly possible will be done to bring about an adjustment fair to every man, to every section, to every project...
Fobes. Gives good Math. A section...
...took it as a matter of course and lamented that there was hot a more equal system of marking. But one genius came through with a suggestion: that each student be given a secret number, which he put on his paper, which, in turn, is handed to a different section man to correct each question. The students all suffer equally from the hard markers and benefit alike from the easy ones...
...course it would have to be developed further, because with all the questions written in the same ink and in the same handwriting, the different section men would not know which one they were expected to correct. There are two remedies for this, which should both be used in order to leave no loopholes...
Incidentally, the instructor who corrected each question would then only have to decipher one handwriting. This would serve the manifold purpose of allowing each student to concentrate on a certain point, of getting the best opinion available among the section men on the value of the answers he wrote, of saving time both in the writing and in the correcting of quizzes, and of bringing about a standard system of grading for all men in all sections...