Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...daughter of Robert Raymond, one of the three businessmen now serving a three-months prison term in Milan, Mich, for antitrust violations. I am very proud of my father's healthy and unbitter attitude toward this situation, and very ashamed of our judicial system, a weak link in our Government. If my father was serving as a martyr for a cause, I would feel differently; but never before have men been given a prison term for this violation...
...been argued that the exam is an irreplaceable part of the lecture-and-syllabus system. Life itself, so the argument runs, is an endless succession of crises in which the educated man is called upon to marshal and organize his knowledge on short notice. Certainly in a course aimed toward the assimiliation of large quantities of factual or semi-factual data, the exam is a successful approximation of such a crisis...
...open-book and take-home systems share the important feature of synthesis--a situation in which the student, with permission to consult his sources, must still draw together his material and produce a comprehensive essay. A pre-assigned topic assumes that, even with foreknowledge, the assignment is sufficiently difficult to demand creative thought while allowing a student to shape and direct his pre-exam studying. This system simply gives more time to the summary work, spreading the synthesis over weeks instead of 180 minutes...
...been backed by such well known economists as J.K. Galbraith, Alvin H. Hansen and Paul M. Sweezy. Other supporters of Keynesism are some remnants of the now defunct Socialist Party and a larger number of miscellaneous 'left-wingers' of the ADA stripe, including certain known partisans of the Soviet system," the pamphlet declares...
...NCAA Committee, meeting in Miami Beach, Fla., will vote today on the American Football Coaches Association request to return to unlimited substitutions and the platoon system, voted out of existence seven years...