Word: partially
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton, gives the following excellent exposition of the advantages which would accrue to that college if it were to adopt the Harvard system of preliminary examinations: "Harvard, Yale, and the University of Virginia, have a custom which Princeton would do well to inaugurate. It is the system of partial examinations for entrance. Suppose, for instance, a boy intends to enter Princeton, '89. He is already proficient in some branches, say mathematics. He takes the entrance examination in that subject with '88, gets a certificate stating the fact, and when he comes back to enter with his class, is examined only...
...following is a partial list of the entries for the first H. A. A. meeting...
Third.-For this evil there seems to be no radical cure; but it would be discouraged by recognizing fully the fact that a full course may afford only partial work to a student who has already taken a kindred elective. This is now partially recognized by prohibiting certain courses (as German 1 and 2, and Italian 1) to students who have taken other electives in the same branches. Now extend this principle to other courses; not excluding advanced students, but letting them count it only two-thirds, one-half, or one-third of their ordinary value, in proportion...
...perhaps from a practical standpoint this custom is really objectionable. Formerly, when the entire college furniture was cheap and rough, this carving was a very different matter than it has become now when our buildings are fitted up in a comparatively handsome manner. Even the most partial would freely admit that the great majority of the names which are thus carved are not famous and probably never will be, while in waiting for the one famous man to arise from the ninety and nine common-place, a room is greatly disfigured by this indiscriminate cutting. It is hardly presumable that...
...college indirectly, for the benefit of the students, while the other is employed directly by the students themselves, does not make the difference. No, there is professionalism and professionalism, and a distinction must be made so as not to include in one term of reproach all those whose partial or entire vocation is athletics. As a matter of fact it is only in base-ball playing tlrat the tendency has been at all reprehensible, and in many cases in this sport there have been extenuating circumstances...