Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practice for the two University crews. Coach E. J. Brown '96 turned his oarsmen downstream early in the afternoon for a limbering up pull over the mile and three quarters course preliminary to the regatta with Cornell and Tech on Saturday, and found conditions favorable enough for a handicap test...
Only one college, so far as we know, has gone the whole way and abolished even examinations and degrees, and that one, Pocono, is too small and casual to afford a fair test of this most radical of all academic ideas. Certain it is, however, that a means is going to be found to make the atmosphere of education electric and just turn the student loose in it. The trouble with examinations and monitors and lectures and conferences is that too often they serve as lightining-arresters, diverting the current of knowledge away from the student instead of into...
...curriculum. The increase in honor grades of two percent, the increase of one percent in satisfactory grades, and the decrese of three percent in grades below the level of C would offer insufficient space for the seal of official approval, even if grades were to be considered the ultimate test of intellectual accomplishment. Of more significance was the increased demand for books at the Coop and in the Library, especially in the latter, where the delivery desk did twice as much work as during the same period last year...
...doubt many Filipinos are quite ready for independence and sincerely believe they could make good use of it, but such problems as would be created by the Moro minority and the difficulties of preserving the independence of territory of such economic and strategic value to other nations would test the ability of a people well trained in diplomacy, to say nothing of one new to the responsibilities of self-government. Development of natural resources would likewise be more difficult if the capital of the United States were to be alienated...
...oarsmen face the M. I. T. first year crew in the curtain raiser for the Harvard-Tech regatta at 4 o'clock this afternoon. It is the premiere for Coach H. H. Haines' men and will suffice to test the strength of what is reputed to be a very powerful Freshman combination...