Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...selecting them long in advance, and it was the judgement of a good many representative students consulted that it would be better not to make advance announcement of their names unless shortly before the examination. But clearly it would not be fair to the Yale men to select the ten best papers out of much over a hundred at Harvard, and line them up against those of ten men who had been previously chosen at Yale. Conditions had to be made as uniform as the circumstances allowed...
...give a practical, basic knowledge of legal matters to laymen, are sponsored by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. To make the subject matter readily understandable to the general public, the speakers will avoid legal technicalities and the citation of authorities. There will be ten speeches...
...order to obviate the danger of excessive cramming and to prevent pre-examination nervousness Harvard has decided not to announce the names of the ten English students chosen to compete with Yale next week until after the competitive examinations have been taken. The avowed purposes of this decision are important but by no means include the only benefits which should accrue from...
...demonstrate his loyalty to his college through scholastic attainments. Desire to gain a place among the college's intellectual representatives might well stimulate the average undergraduate to scholastic endeavor, but it would scarcely serve as an added incentive to do well on the examination itself to any but the ten picked men if their names were announced before the event. Under the present Harvard plan, however, at least every student who stands high in the English Department will feel an added obligation on him to put forth his best endeavors. Since it is not known which students are to bear...
...loyalty are served, however, by the Harvard plan of withholding the names of the competitors until after the competition is over it might be inferred that they would be even further advanced by reserving the choice of competitors until the examination has been taken. In other words, the ten best papers in each college would be compared, rather than the papers of ten men who may not necessarily represent the best the college has to offer. The chance to turn scholastic attainment to account for the glory of the college would thus be determined by the examinations themselves; the possibility...