Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, Volume 12

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Includes reports of the committees on academic freedom, as follows: Vol. I, pt. 1 Annual address of the president and General report of the Committee on academic freedom and academic tenure. December 1915. Vol. II, no. 2, pt. 2. Reports of committees concerning charges of violation of academic freedom at the University of Colorado and at Wesleyan University. April 1916. Vol. II, no. 3, pt. 2. Report of the Committee of inquiry on the case of Professor Scott Nearing of the University of Pennsylvania. May 1916.
 

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Página 401 - A unit represents a year's study in any subject in a secondary school, constituting approximately a quarter of a full year's work.
Página 307 - The examination will be adapted to the proficiency of those who have had one year's systematic training, with three lessons a week, or its equivalent.
Página 401 - This statement is designed to afford a standard of measurement for the work done in secondary schools. It takes the four-year high school course as a basis, and assumes that the length of the school year is from thirty-six to forty weeks, that a period is from forty to sixty minutes in length, and that the study is pursued for four or five periods a week ; but under ordinary circumstances, a satisfactory year's work in any subject cannot be accomplished in less than one hundred and twenty sixty-minute...
Página 12 - At each annual meeting the president shall appoint a committee of five whose duty it shall be to report at...
Página 584 - With us, a few years ago, it was scarcely thought a matter worthy of the attention of a man of science and taste to attempt to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, or by new methods of feeding, to make a bullock grow from an ordinary to an uncommon size. This was left entirely to those whose every-day business it was to plough and to sow. Experience, as it was call-
Página 307 - Latin to a very large extent by his interpretation and translation of Latin it is only fair that the candidate should know as far as possible the standard by which he is to be judged. So long as certain works of certain authors are accepted as the norm for reading in preparation for the examinations it is essential that teachers and students should have a knowledge of the vocabulary that is most common in those particular works. The College Entrance Examination Board has...
Página 307 - ... literary and historical, connected with the authors usually read in schools. Each candidate will choose those parts of the paper which are designed to test such proficiency in the language as may properly be acquired in two, three, or four years...
Página 306 - In the third year, if the reading be in prose, not less than one semester should be devoted to the reading of selections from Cicero ; the reading for the year may also include selections from such authors as Pliny, Sallust, and Livy, or books of selections containing these and other authors of prose works. (3...
Página 420 - PROFESSORS 3. The presentation of certificates from properly accredited secondary schools, such as are approved or accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and other similar accrediting organizations. All the State institutions and 45 of the endowed accepted certificates of accredited secondary schools. 4. Part certification and part examination. One State and two endowed. 5. Presentation of diploma from an approved normal school. Ten State, one endowed.1 6.
Página 9 - Officers 1. The officers of this Association shall be a President, a VicePresident, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and an Executive Committee...

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