Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...entrance examinations is not to test the candidate's knowledge of facts, but to examine his intellectual power. The examiners try to ask, not "How much do you know"? but "Are you qualified to profit by instruction in Harvard College"? As a means of determining the extent of this qualification, a considerably smaller set of requirements would be more efficient; for at the average age of candidates for admission, the attempt to cover the present field is ordinarily attended by a parrot-like grasp of unrelated details, but by no real mastery or assimilation of the subjects. If the examiners...
...Student Aid" by C. S. Collier '11, is an application of the issue between individualism and socialism to a matter that is immediately before us. Mr. Collier suggests, as an individualistic remedy, that capital might be invested in the education of promising material, as the basis of a profit to the investor. There are numerous objections to which the writer does not pay their due, such, for example as the necessity of charging a usurious rate of interest in lieu of security. But there is much by the way that is pertinent and illuminating. The article is well articulated...