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N.Y.IdeasOn Finals Sound Pretty Good
A faculty committee at Clarkson College of Technology at Potsdam, N.Y., has set up recommendations designed to alleviate many problems connected with final examinations.
7. The three-hour examination period is satisfactory. However, each department should give consideration to providing shorter exams. In no case should an exam require more than three hours for its completion.
1. Final examinations should emphasize: (a) evaluation of a student's judgment and intellectual power, rather than the adequacy of his ability to remember factual material; (b) correlation and assimilation of the subject matter of the course.
6. In multiple sections of a course a completely uniform examination should be given in all of the sections.
2. The number of examinations taken by each student should be reduced. Each year certain courses should be designed as "no examination" courses. This list should be varied each year so that no course will come to be regarded as less important because examinations are not required in it.
4. Second-term seniors who have a good grade average should be exempt from final examinations.
3. One oral examination should be given to students each term of the sophomore and junior years and in the first term of the senior year.
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8. Examination questions should be stated so clearly that anyone familiar with the subject can readily judge what is expected as an answer.
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George Washington Shrdlu, who was born 51 years ago in Lexington, Kentucky, came from a long line of soldiers. His father, Theodore "Teddy" Shrdlu, was wounded at San Juan hill. His grandfather, Robert E. Shrdlu, was in a large measure responsible for the Confederate victory at Bull Run.
His great-great-grandfather, Stonewall Shrdlu, was one of the defenders of Fort McHenry, in 1812, and his grandfather, Lighthorse Harry Shrdlu, was instrumental in bringing about the surrender of Cornwallis.
Before he was old enough to go to school, little Georgie used to spend all his time playing with tin soldiers. In grade school he was always the "general" when the boys played at mock war.
Shrdrl enlisted as a private in World War I, having decided to come up the hard way. His first promotion was rapid; he was made a corporal in a matter of weeks.
Today, in ceremonies near Washington, Cpl. Shrdlu was finally broken back to buck private.
From Texas Christian university come these rules for "dormitory bridge": a deck of cards and four people are helpful, but not absolutely necessary. If you can't find a fourth, get a fifth.
After examining the new tax law, we think that congress overlooked one important way to reduce expenses. They might have tried to spend less.
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Is Churchill Working Toward Disbanding House of Lords?
By ROBERT MUSEL
United Press Staff Correspondent London—The hereditary House of Lords is on its way out as a lawmaking body after some 700 years.
Winston Churchill, whose kinfolks have been sitting there since 1603, is belining along its dissolution.
The prime minister pushed the time-encrusted institution closer to what many consider its inevitable end by the appointment of the Marquess of Salisbury as Conservative leader of the upper house.
Lord Salisbury has been one of the key figures in discussions looking toward the final legislative fade-out of the descendants of the bold barons who extorted the Magna Charta from King John in 1215 and opened the way to representative government.
That would be less colorful than the present House of Lords whose members sometimes wear robes of scarlet andermine and coronets, but it might be more efficient.
Many bearers of great and ancient names seem reluctant to leave their ivy-covered castles and moated fastnesses for the noise of West-minster. The present Lords has never been well attended except in dire emergencies.
For several years now there has been wide agreement among all parties on the end of the hereditary principle. They do not feel that because some knight in armor battered down the king's enemies in ye old days, his descendants for all time have the right to make laws for the rest of the people.
In its place, all parties seem to agree that there should be a chamber of elder statesmen and women chosen for personal distinction and public service and known as the Lords of Parliament.
A good number of these "back-
The big obstacles to reform of Lords are these; the Socialists claim Churchill's method of changing membership qualifications would pack it, as President Roosevelt tried to pack the Supreme Court, and future labor governments would find it difficult to pass legislation.
woodsmen," as they are called, have scarcely raised a voice against proposals to dissolve the House of Lords, even those whose family roots go back to 1235, when the idea of a council to advise the king began to take definite shape.
The Tories want, in addition to the elder statesmen, membership for certain members of the royal family, certain high churchmen and legal officers of the crown.
The Socialists also want guarantees the new house won't have a permanent one-party majority. The present Lords is overwhelmingly Conservative.
All parties are generally agreed that the new house will not be an elected body, since it is to be complementary to Commons, not its rival. They also think there ought to be some sort of pay so not only the rich could accept appointment. The body's duties will be to debate and revise legislation sent it by Commons.
Women peers are already eligible to sit in Lords, by a vote a couple of years ago, but none has taken advantage of the privilege because reform is considered only a matter of time.
One of those who voted against the women, however, was Viscount St. Davids. He pointed out plaintively that both his mother and aunt would be sitting with him if women were admitted.
News From Other Campuses
A plan for "adoption" of a college in the Near East having nearly the same interests has been introduced at Purdue university. The purpose of the plan is to compare methods of school operation.
Purdue May Adopt College
Suggestions for useful work projects to take the place of "Hell Week" initiation activities are being collected at Kansas State college.
Texans Ask Longer Vacation
Seek 'Hell Week' Projects
Students at the University of Texas have been circulating petitions in an attempt to change the Thanksgiving vacation which "would force a majority of us to cut the three days prior to the holiday."
Student Court Made Public
Student court at the University of North Carolina has been opened to the public as result of protests as to the constitutionality of closed courts.
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Christmas Armistice Appears Doubtful
Panmunjom, Korea—(U.P.)—United Nations and Communist negotiators agreed today on a 30-day cease-fire line for Korea, but hope was fading for an Armistice by Christmas.
Although technically this war will still be on, the fighting on the ground is expected to come to virtual stop while UN and Communist delegates try to settle the rest of the armistice terms.
The full truce delegations will move on to the next item on the Armistice agenda—an organization to supervise and inspect the carrying out of Armistice terms—immediately after ratifying the tentative cease-fire line Tuesday. Also on the agenda are arrangements for an exchange of war prisoners and recommendations to be made to the governments taking part in the Korean war.
Trains Crash Head-On—17 Die
Woodstock, Ala.—(U.P.)-A Southern railway official said today 17 persons were killed when luxury streamliners collided head-on near here Sunday afternoon.
K. C. Schultz, operating division manager of Southern, announced that 16 bodies have been removed from the wreckage of the two trains. The 17th victim, he said, is the engineer of one of the trains involved, whose body still is buried in the debris. Upwards of 70 other persons were injured in the crash.
DefendEuropeWithNewBomb
Rome—(U.P.)—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told the North Atlantic Treaty council today that he was counting on the new "baby" tactical atomic bombs for the defense of Europe against Communist aggression.
Addressing the military committee of the council, Eisenhower said, however, that even the use of such bombs would not remove the need for 60 to 70 divisions of ground troops for his Atlantic pact defense forces.
The jet plane, latest model of the Northrop Scorpion, is equipped with radar-controlled rockets. The rockets are aimed electronically and triggered automatically. The F-89D also is equipped with radar equipment enabling it to seek out enemy airplanes at night in any kind of weather.
Hawthorne, Calif.—(U.P.)The F-89D, a twin engine, round-the-clock interceptor-fighter capable of knocking out the largest modern bomber with a single punch, is undergoing tests at the Northrop Aircraft Corp., it was announced today.
New Fighter Undergoes Test
Yugoslav delegate Molovan Djilas told the United Nations political committee that the action "fundamentally threatens world peace." At the same time Asian, Arab and Latin American nations sought to break an East-West disarmament deadlock in the UN, but the West's reaction was cool.
Paris—(U.P.)-Yugoslavia charged today that Russia and its satellite countries had massed troops and built fortifications along the Yugoslav borders for a possible invasion.
Cook Faces Death Sentence
The little killer, already serving a 300-year federal prison sentence for murdering five members of the Carl Mosser family of Illinois, now faces sentencing for slaying traveling salesman Robert Dewey of Seattle, Wash. Cook, 23, shot Dewey to death on the California desert as he fled west after kidnapping the Mossers and killing them.
El Centro, Calif.—(U.P.)—Gunman Billy Cook learns Tuesday whether he must die in the state's lethal gas chamber for the last in his bloody string of six murders.
Reds Mass Troops, Say Slavs
Hold 3 In Check Swindle
Denver—(U.P.)—A Mexico City businessman and two former American students at the University of Mexico were held in jail here today in connection with an alleged $100,000 check swindle scheme that mushroomed across the country.
The three men were identified as William Malton, Jr., and Lester Krulevitch, both 28, and Ernest Fink, 33. Police said Krulevitch described the details of the plot, which detectives described as "simplicity itself."