Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...platitude that examination wisdom is not true understanding of the subject. The fact that the Junior divisional examination taken by students in History and Literature is the same as that offered the Seniors indicates the compression into three years of knowledge ordinarily acquired in four; while this compression may bring examination wisdom, it will hardly bring, in most cases, more than that...
This division may be a salutary one. But it seems that conducting specialized work along with the general would establish a more equable balance between the two. A student with three full years to absorb his entire subject for examination at the end of his course will have sufficient background by his Senior year to attempt a specialized job in the form of a thesis, while he is finishing his general work on his field. Each portion of his work should profit from association with the other. The final divisional examination then becomes a true test of general knowledge clarified...
...different side of the same coin. No question of individual freedom is involved; this is determined by release from tutorial and course restriction, and the opportunities are equally good under either plan. The difference is one of degree, rather than of kind; whether a course which dismisses half its subject after a hurried two years is wiser than one which carries general and specific along together, to the profit of both...
...which a few good points are so mingled with the numerous bad ones as to show the author was not in a position to distinguish between them. He points out that Harvard men are immune from the literature and motion pictures which take the American undergraduate for their subject. It is all for the best even though the medium is the genial and appreciative Mr. Roberts...
...editorial note is on the subject of "Reversals in Illinois Criminal Cases." It shows that the higher courts of Cook County, in which Chicago is situated, reversed 11 out of 15 decisions appealed to them from the lower courts. The article states that there is "one law for the innocent and another for the guilty" in the work of the Chicago courts and gives considerable evidence on the unusual procedure of these legal bodies...