Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard College has been busied with an intellectual pudding, the success of which will be inspected for the next three weeks. The first "Reading Period" ever tried in an American University came to a close yesterday; beginning this morning, the results of that Reading Period will be put to test...
...credulity, and the thirst for accurate knowledge demands facts and demonstration. One may infer that such a desire overtook the inhabitants of Eastland, Texas, thirty years ago, for the tradition that has grown up in the West as to the indestructability of the horned frog was put to the test. A live frog was placed in the cornerstone of the courthouse of Eastland. Now the old structure is to be vacated, the cornerstone will shortly be opened, and opportunity will be granted to interested parties to see whether the horned frog has lived up to expectations. It is reported that...
...them in the spirit of "Go on, we're down, step all over us!" No matter how busy they have been, they have always seemed willing to take on one more burden. They have welcomed criticism, shortcomings of which have been brought to light only under the acid test of the Reading Period...
...practical distinction is made between children born in or out of wedlock and either sort have legal claim to paternal support. Theoretically the Russian law is a sharp curb to carnality, since no man wants his entire income to be claimed by promiscuous children. Last week, however, a test case was curiously decided in Moscow when 10 unmarried mothers claimed support for their 32 children from a rich peasant, Ivan Bourov. In Bourov's case, the Court laid down a broad, general principal: "One third of a citizen's income is the maximum percentage which can be claimed...
...ultimate results of the Reading Period will be determined by each individual--each man constituting in his own case the best judge. A concrete test will come in the shape of the mid-year and final examinations. But even now, after five days' trial of the plan, one thing has been proved: the halls of learning have not been deserted in wholesale fashion. Whatever else has happened, reading is being done Whether that reading is accomplishing any permanent results is a question for the future. But anyone who doubts the ability of the undergraduate to rise voluntarily before...