Word: credititis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...September exams this year than in September 1925 during which academic year the system providing for the passing off of the Language Requirements with the attaining of certain marks in certain specified courses was instituted. The decrease is attributed directly to the alteration in the means of receiving credit for the Requirements. In the September tests of three years ago 1169 students made attempts at passing the elementary and reading requirements whereas the September exams this year were of possible service to only 862. The numbers taking the examinations in the falls of 1926 and 1927 likewise follow this descending...
...tests is shown in the columns of the reading exams figures each showing a decided drop during the last three years. It is apparent that the elementary requirements are met by most men now as before the change three years ago either through College Boards preparatory school credit or elementary College courses. The figures denoting the numbers taking these exams vary little from year to year 50 being the approximate average...
...education, alas, so much is expected that the distracted modern university publishes a catalogue quite as alluring as Sears Roebuck's. Everett Dean Martin deplores an educational system which, pandering to a materialistic age, offers equal "credit" for a course in Aristotle's Ethics and another in High Power Salesmanship. But the fault lies not so much with the age as with the perennial lack of a consistent philosophy of education...
...Freshman sports must be attended at least three times a week to secure the necessary credit throughout the year
...principle at most of them, and allowing the student with a vacant hour to attend a lecture outside his own curriculum, providing he takes a seat that is otherwise vacant and creates no disturbance or does not consider his attendance a basis for the awarding of an examination or credit in the course...