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...been discovered that college professors do rather worse than college freshmen when subjected to the quizzes lately employed as tests of intelligence. This does not prove the illiteracy of college professors. It merely demonstrates how futile is the quiz method of determining intellectual ability...
...quiz upon a subject that a student has lately studied is a useful test of his attention and of his ability to concentrate; but asking all manner of men all manner of questions in which they have but the slightest interest is a worthless method of detecting their ability or capacity to discharge their duties. The New York Tribune
...important meeting tonight at 7.30 for all Freshman crew candidates. The meeting will be held in the Smith Halls Common Room. The Freshman coach, Dr. Howe, will speak on the nomenclature of rowing shells. It will be advantageous for every man to attend this meeting, and to bring his "quiz" card with...
...Europe; Professor Gay will discuss the economic aspects of the war in four lectures; Professor Lord and Dr. Klein will treat the Russian and South American connection; and Professor A. B. Hart, with Professor MacDonald, of Brown University, and others, will consider the more strictly national aspect. A fifth quiz-hour will be added for those who wish to take the course for credit; and a feature will be made of a large collection of books relating to the war, to be assembled in the Widener Library, with classified lists and suggestions for reading and study...
...present system of learning lecture notes by heart, taking pages and pages of notes on outside reading to commit to memory, is futile, if that memorizing process is so mechanical that we forget all the facts after a quiz. Yet this is the system which is prevalent here at Harvard, and at other colleges throughout the country. With such methods of study there is little wonder that educators find their students submissively docile and without originality...