Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agree with the editorial of January 21st that "it is really no use in trying to prove that Harvard students are on the whole religiously inclined." To my mind such a statement narrows the meaning of religion and makes it conform to some petty attitude of one who does not know the meaning of religion...
There is really no use in trying to prove that Harvard students are on the whole religiously inclined. The average daily chapel attendance of one hundred indicates that there are at least that many who are genuinely interested in chapel services--and nothing else. It is true that at many colleges, the chapel attendance is compulsory, but this does not mean that there would be a smaller proportion of those student bodies at morning chapel if attendance were not compulsory. It is generally admitted that nowhere would enforced chapel meet with more opposition, or voluntary chapel find smaller congregations than...
...decided advantages. To cram during a few weeks previous to the examination upon material studied during approximately four years' preparation is well-nigh impossible, or so it seems to those faced by divisionals; whereas the Old Plan, resembling more in character our final examinations, permits, as the tutoring schools prove, cramming. To pass the comprehensive examination, the sub-Freshmen must have that grasp of what facts he has acquired presupposed of a candidate for his college degree...
...personal interviews wherever possible" would be as unjust to those applicants who found it possible as to those who found it impossible. However interesting and significant the results of such investigation may be, they cannot be more than supplementary. An absolute standard is the only one which can prove fair and consistent with itself. The only absolute standard at the command of any university is that of scholarship...
...examinations for entrance to Harvard College. But there is one addition which would seem advisable--that of a general cultural examination. This would be taken either in connection with the New Plan examinations or with the subjects offered last by a candidate under the Old Plan. It would undoubtedly prove useful in deciding difficult cases; thus if there were 30 applicants all with an equally low average, on the regular examinations, and only fifteen places still vacant, the fifteen who had passed the best cultural examinations would be admitted...