Word: desideratum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Retention of facts, said President Lowell, is not the main desideratum in a real education; what the student learns, he forgets after ten years, but the mental processes which he developes as he learns, remain by him and assist him through his whole life...
...last point, the testing of fitness for admission, the desideratum doubtless is that all schools men should be admitted who by their ability to keep up to Harvard requirements show that they can profit by Harvard instruction. That the entrance examinations, whether given by Harvard or by the Board, sometimes fail to test this fitness properly, is as evident as that a course examinations may sometimes fail to measure accurately the work done by a student. The Harvard committee on admission, through its own examinations and those of the College Board, is adjusting as equitably as it can the difficult...