Word: existing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Examinations may be fairly defined as coercive incentives to study, possessing no utility as mere tests, in which sense the time could undoubtedly be spent more profitably in the instructors' rooms. They exist, therefore, not as ends, but as means, and it is to be hoped that even for this purpose something better will be devised. As simple as this principle is, if understood by all, it is applied by very few of our professors. For, instead of finding questions on a paper which can be answered if one comprehends the general principles that underlie the subject, nearly...
...doubtful if many instructors and students find unemployed afternoons in the busy time from Monday to Friday, - always supposing that the student is ambitious to hold an honorable position in his studies. Granted unlimited leisure, the need of a general holiday is still urgent; else what opportunities exist to witness base-ball and football games, and various other athletic sports? Absence from recitation would be the rule and not the exception on such occasions...