Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The methods of admission, as outlined by Philip W. Thomson '02 are as follows: A candidate must be proposed by a member of the club, and seconded by another. Letters of recommendation are addressed by these two to the committee on admission, which numbers in the neighborhood of 20 graduates...
Prince Carol, abdicated heir to the Rumanian throne, asked his onetime wife, Princess Helen, how she would feel if he returned home. Said she: "I have no objection."
Added to this, there is the further objection that too many questions of this sort lend themselves particularly to cramming methods. Judicious tutoring immediately before this examination would have armed the student with enough factual knowledge to enable him to give the impression that he knows his subject but that...
Elsewhere in this column there is a copy of an Hour Examination given in English 72 last Friday. The usual objection that examinations are mere regurgitation of facts is totally out of place in this instance. To the contrary, the questions under present consideration are excellent examples of the so...
If questions such as these were asked in three hour examinations there could be no objection, for they avoid the Scylla of calling forth a mass, of unassimilated fact. Unfortunately this test has gone to the other extreme and fallen into the Charybdis of asking for too much in a...