Word: boarded
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Official announcement has just been made that within the last year Harvard has become a member of the College Entrance Examination Board, and that Dean Hurlbut, who is the representative of the University of the Board, has been m made its vice-chairman. The other officers are President Butler, of Columbia, chairman, and Professor Fiske, of Columbia, secretary...
...This board is the outgrowth of an idea advanced some years ago by President Eliot and put into form in 1900 by Mr. Seth Low, then president of Columbia. It was formed for the purpose of providing a set of examinations which may be taken by men from any of the schools represented in the Board and which will admit to any of the colleges belonging to it. Those who wish, however, may take the regular examinations provided by the different colleges. Owing to the fact that the present requirements for by the examinations set by the Board in certain...
...Association, was formed in large messier, to aid the schools in their work of preparation for the different colleges, with the idea that by having uniform examinations, the work can be greatly simplified. Board examinations are at present held in the following subjects: English, History, Latin, Greek, French, German, Spanish, Mathematics (including elementary and advanced algebra, plane and solid geometry and trigonometry), Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Geography and Drawing. The papers in each subject are set by a separate committee of examiner appointed by the Board and consisting of two college teachers and one school teacher. The questions are then submitted...
Examinations for licenses to teach in the public schools of New York city will be held at the Hall of the Board of Education, Park avenue and Fifty-ninth street, New York City, as follows: Thursday and Friday, January 5 and 6, 1905, beginning at 9 A. M., a written examination in the history and principles of education and methods of teaching; during the week beginning January 5, a written examination in academic subjects...
...Tuesday. The Public School Association, which is led by Major Higginson and was recently addressed at Tremont Temple by President Eliot, desires a certain number of men to check off the voters at the booths and to hunt up delinquent voters. The association aims at keeping the Boston School Board out of politics and is absolutely non-partisan and non-sectarian. Its effect has been to give a more efficient and honest administration of school affairs in the recent past...