Word: test
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...stumbles across questions of practicability. Scholarships ought to be given to those students who most need money and who are likeliest to be useful in the active life of the world after graduation. This much is plain. But the question comes: is not college rank the only practicable test for determining distribution of scholarships...
...making of Hamlet than to the invention of the steamengine, or the turning of it into a draught horse. Men have always been willing to pay the highest prices for things that were of no practical use whatever, and though a Frenchman has said that cookery was the test of civilization, we are more commonly apt to gauge it by the value set upon works whose only apology for being is their beauty. If we compare the spirit which led to the Great Exhibition of 1851, with that which underlay the first crusade we can hardly hesitate as to which...
...amounted to 22,370 volumes. This makes a total of 431,298 cnntents of the possession of the University, and if unbound pamphlets be included (as is the case in counting the volumes in many European libraries) the total number is 762,850. Even this is not a fair test of comparison with the old world libraries, for often the number of titles in bound volumes of collected pamphlets, and the different specifications in collections of patent records are singly counted. The American system is to count books as bound, and not to separate their component parts in the enumeration...
...believes that, beyond dispute, men who intend to devote their lives to teaching should acquaint themselves somewhat with this matter. There is a very general inclination to take it for granted that, provided a man knows, he can make known. Yet, put to the test of actual work in the world. this notion shows itself to be most misleading...
...sects followed and every one was permitted to have a belief of his own, suited to his own needs. If he lived up to it, he fulfilled all the requirements of a religion. The same thing is true at the present day. One should put his belief to the test at times, to see if it satisfies his ideas. Religious truth is unlike all other truths. A mathematical truth is proved by a set of fixed rules. Legal or historical truths are governed only by hearsay. Religious truth, however, is proved by intellect and reasoning. Its foundation...