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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entrance papers. School records tell more that final examinations, valuable as the latter are to determine whether a boy is capable of meeting a test when the occasion arises. This will work out so that an applicant with a good school record will not fail of entrance to Yale simply because he may "flunk" a single subject in his finals. The ending of the September "finals" has come largely because the University does not expect particularly good results form a school-boy who has wasted his time during the school year and hurries through a summer school to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...seems to me that what the student needs is not "to see life clearly, and to see it whole", but to see a certain element in life which no end of college training will if unaided fail to give him. i. e. worthwhileness. The only possible cause of suicide for the sane human being is that values have lost their meaning for him. When his mental acuteness is being sharpened in the process of education, he becomes gradually more conscious with his increasing introspective powers, of his own failure to grasp any significance in life which will make it seem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL-- | 2/8/1927 | See Source »

...will fail unless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: National Universities | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

With the second round of the Ames Competition for second year Law School men beginning Monday, eight clubs will present teams of two men each to do forensic battle for the right to compete in the semi finals next fail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 2/1/1927 | See Source »

...dumb-looking youth next to me will be calling for his fifth blue book so that he can tell all of Gore Hall at dinner this noon how much he wrote on the English exam: It won't do him any good, of course, since every one will either fail to hear him or think that he cheated and wrote on every other line. Meanwhile six proctors are rushing to his aid, the head proctor in his haste forgetting the table in front of him and taking a headlong live on to the floor, thereby hurting himself not a little...

Author: By A. L. S., | Title: THE GRIME | 2/1/1927 | See Source »

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