Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus stood the earliest college entrance requirements set by Harvard College. Early examinations were oral. This procedure was not improved until 1845 when Horace Mann spurred the introduction of written examinations in Boston, whence they soon spread to all U. S. schools. In 1900 came another improvement when the College Entrance Examination Board was founded to give uniform examinations whose passage would admit students to all first-class colleges and universities. In the course of educational evolution, some advanced pedagogical theorists have now grown critical of this system, too. Last week they were pleased to find that their dissatisfaction...
...flying fox of Australia; also included was a business-like list of catalogs for the sale of such natural history specimens as human skeletons. North American bird eggs, glass models of invertebrates. This periodical, published by Ward's Natural Science Establishment of Rochester, N. Y. was probably the earliest scientific "house organ...
Thus the counterpart of the event which drew some 80 parents from all over the country to live in Lowell House for three days, will not be duplicated until 1938 at the earliest...
Skiiers will be encouraged by word from Mount Mansfield, Vermont, that good trail skiing is to be found on the upper parts of the mountain, while the carriage road may be run to the foot. Heavy snow in the latter part of November provided the earliest skiing in New England...
...reproduction of President Eliot's voice, taken from the speech in praise of Asa Grey, is remarkable because it was made in the very earliest days of Movie-tone, and is not as clear as it might...