Word: exams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going full tilt to keep the building warm, but with the windows open it would get cold as a barn. Then when the professor came in, the students would complain the building was not heated enough, and was too cold for an examination. Generally they were excused and the exam postponed to another...
Rigorous Physical Exam...
When queried as to the relative scholastic standing of the two universities, he replied, "In Oxford one may do almost as little work as he likes, the only demands upon him being a preliminary exam in the second term, and then nothing else until finals at the end of the course. Your College, however, checks you up much more carefully than does the University. That is where the difference of our tutorial system comes...
...have not yet, however, approached the cardinal significance of the American exam game. The paragraph, skimmed by a twinkling eye, rousing no more than an amused comment on the inexhaustible inventiveness of those Americans, contains in truth the seeds of a mighty revolution in the intellectual history of all universities, and thus, in due time, of all the world. Harvard has played Yale at English literature. When Oxford annually plays Cambridge at Greek, at modern languages, at history, at theology, at mathematics, at science, the scope of the revolution will begin to be perceived. Learning and intellectual prowess will...
...loud and doleful need the cries no longer be. For pause but a moment to think: Was there aught in all the lectures of this half year that merited as much as mention in an exam? J. Pendergast Elliott...