Word: teste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comprehend that it can be easily lost. It needs more effort for its support than the less exalted places of the world. . . . Peace and prosperity are not finalities; they are only methods. It is too easy under their influence for a nation to become selfish and degenerate. This test has come to the United States...
...contest is open to all resident students of Harvard College who are pursuing a regular course of study, and have not completed four years of work in a college or institution of equivalent grade. It is designed to test not only the student's knowledge of facts and events, but also his understanding of their relative meanings and his interpretations of their importance. The field covered in this contest includes current events of political, economic, and social significance...
Competitors in this last test for Juniors and Sophomores will be graded on a point basis according to the amount of work done and accepted. During the first week the duties will be light while the new men are familiarized with the fundamentals of journalistic work. Because of this, lack of experience does not prove a handicap at the start of the competition...
Experimentation with admissions requirements designed to test the applicants' fitness for college as well as his secondary school training has been indulged in by various colleges during the last few years. No psychological or mental aptitude test yet involved however has proved entirely convincing to colleges like Harvard which have clung to the older admissions criteria...
Actual work in college is undoubtedly the best test of a student's qualification to remain there. Insofar as their physical limitations will permit colleges would do well permit colleges would do well to follow the Law School in establishing admissions standards within rather than at the beginning of the Freshman year...