Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gymnasium of the University of Pennsylvania, recently opened, is one of the most completely fitted up buildings of the kind in the country...
This University is the largest and most important institution of its kind in the Balkan Peninsula, or in Asia Minor. Though quite recently established, it has already done a great work for the peoples of the East, and every year its influence spreads...
...basis of Harvard's educational system, - individuality in work and self-development. Our mathematical scale, based on an average of per cents, is really no basis for class-rank, under the elective system; for such an estimate of individual proficiency assumes, first, the absolute equality of studies different in kind, and then, as a natural consequence, the infallibility of per cents as a common measure of knowledge of these different studies. Both these assumptions are so plainly absurd and inconsistent with our theory of education, and the unjust character of their actual operation is so well known, that I will...
...character, the nature of the subject on which it is held. Then the examination will be a true test, and its results will constitute the proper basis for the university's certificates. No matter what combination of courses a student pursues, he will be credited with just the kind of acknowledgment which his work demands...
...percentage-marking now in vogue. The scale is too fine, in any case, but is less easily applied to other means of testing, such as recitations, than to an examination paper; some scale, of course, is necessary, but it must be coarse enough to be applied justly to every kind of test. With these mutual limits, then, let us define to some extent our test; then our marking system will be practically developed also. Many studies, and most of our courses, can properly be tested only in part, - and that often a very small part, - by means of written examinations...