Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plan demands more than a knowledge of facts; there is included in it a psychological test and a very satisfactory cultural examination. Upon the last examination the candidate was asked to condense a long paragraph into a few sentences, and questions appeared which would also test his general reading knowledge of literature. Upon the history examination was a question calling both for some knowledge of the past history of Europe, but also enabling the candidate to show what reading he had done upon very recent history. This sort of question is a good criterion of the general mental equipment...
...repeated enrolment of dropped students without a second examination, by discouraging transfer students from other colleges, and, above all, by discontinuing fall entrance examinations, which are responsible, they maintained, for 75 percent of the Freshmen who go on probation. Further, they advocated an additional general examination designed to test the candidate's ability, potentiality, and breadth of culture instead of his acquisitive power...
...Freshman sextet added another to its string of one-sided victories yesterday afternoon at the Arena by routing the Cambridge Latin School combination 8 to 0. The schoolboys did not offer stubborn enough opposition to test the Crimson skaters on the defense, but there was a noticeable improvement on the attack...
...chimney. There is a; disturbance. The gallant makes a bargain with the zealot father. If the trial by fire does not take place, he shall have the girl. The compact is no more than sealed when a deluge of rain outside extinguishes the flames in which the test was to be made, and the ordeal cannot be held...
...rustle no doubt had an element of pleasurable anticipation in it. On the face of it this announcement appeared synonymous with the promise of a "snap exam". But when the result of a previous test, given on the same principle, was made public; grave doubts arose. It seemed as if the new saddle merely rubbed in another place and, possibly, as if the weight were better distributed...