Word: junior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exceptions taken by the letter appearing in these columns yesterday to the CRIMSON's objections to the plan of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature which sets the written divisional examination in Junior year do not, the CRIMSON believes, reproach the validity of the main objection. This was, briefly, that to set an examination which shall serve solely as a voucher of understanding sufficient to permit intensive specialization makes the examination only something to be got out of the way as easily as possible...
...platitude that examination wisdom is not true understanding of the subject. The fact that the Junior divisional examination taken by students in History and Literature is the same as that offered the Seniors indicates the compression into three years of knowledge ordinarily acquired in four; while this compression may bring examination wisdom, it will hardly bring, in most cases, more than that...
Candidates are encouraged further in their consideration of the Junior divisional examination only as an occasion by the absence of any records of the results. No marks are kept, so that a grade just above the passing line serves the purpose as well as a mark of distinction. Where this is the case, few will take the trouble to learn more than is necessary, and veterans of examinations have a way of knowing how much is necessary...
...effect, the Junior divisional test is a line drawn sharply between the realms of generalization and specialization. To pass the examination is to cross the equator dividing two aspects of study which have here become two separate entities...
Neither the theory of giving the honors candidate an examination in his Junior year, nor that of delaying it until his Senior year represents a distinct educational program. Each is a different side of the same coin. No question of individual freedom is involved; this is determined by release from tutorial and course restriction, and the opportunities are equally good under either plan. The difference is one of degree, rather than of kind; whether a course which dismisses half its subject after a hurried two years is wiser than one which carries general and specific along together, to the profit...