Word: mereness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prime object of a college education is commonly said to be the development of the ability to think logically and constructively. If this be true, examinations which call for something more than mere extensive knowledge of isolated facts are a far truer basis for grading students than are memory tests...
...that the trustees are much encouraged by the present outlook for greater enrollment, although the year is not yet advanced to the time when applications for instruction are most numerous. The policy of the Faculty is to accept men for their quality rather than to seek after mere quantity of students. We weigh an applicant's intellectual and personal attributes quite as carefully as his piety, and aim to get the best men in New England...
...mere statement of figures such as is published this morning makes dry reading, and perhaps still drier matter for analysis. Comparative statistics of enrollment are also liable to be misleading unless administrative differences, as well as the resultant changes, are taken into account...
...would seem that the problem may be solved by making admission requirements more general. Questions of detail involving mere abstract facts, which with sufficient study a scholar even of low standard may acquire, should appear much less frequently on the papers. Their place should be taken by questions requiring a good general knowledge of a subject and demanding a certain amount of careful and accurate thought. This might prove a sure and speedy way of raising the standard of scholarship...
...getting Mexico and the United States to submit to the judgment of the court a claim involving the two nations. It was this act of John Hay's which literally saved the court, because it put the machinery in motion and if this step had not been taken mere disuse would have caused the court to vanish out of existence in a very short space of time. Almost any nation is willing to pass a high-sounding resolution in favor of peace, and in any peace convention which is to do efficient work the difficult is not in passing such...