Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...record in the secondary school will be submitted by the principal, and on the strength of this record and his examination marks the final decision of the College entrance authorities will be made. The proposed system has not yet been passed upon by the Corporation, but it appears certain that this approval will be forthcoming at the next regular meeting. For the present either the old system or the new can be used, at the option of the separate schools...
...more desolate pictures are presented to our somewhat apathetic eyes than that afforded by the appeals of the permanent officers of the Senior class, who, though elected by the class, often lack its support. Charged by their classmates with certain necessary and vital duties, they have in past years been forced by the irresponsibility and procrastination of some members of the class to issue frequent and monotonous notices that the Class Lives are not yet complete or that pledges have not been returned by an even respectable proportion of the class...
...dinner will to a certain extent take the place of the usual award of distinctions, which was not held this year. Invitations have been sent to about 1,000 graduates, and it is expected that there will be a large attendance...
...admission requirements more general. Questions of detail involving mere abstract facts, which with sufficient study a scholar even of low standard may acquire, should appear much less frequently on the papers. Their place should be taken by questions requiring a good general knowledge of a subject and demanding a certain amount of careful and accurate thought. This might prove a sure and speedy way of raising the standard of scholarship...
...will be objected that as the class of men who win prizes usually stand in need of financial aid, this method affords the least embarrassing way of rewarding those who are the most deserving. Though this is true to a certain extent, the same result would be accomplished in a less bald way by a committee who should look into the needs of successful scholars, and in this way remove the cheapening effect of money prizes upon scholarship...