Word: tested
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ideas on a number of disjointed questions. On the other hand, in answering but few questions, or even one very comprehensive one, you can show not only a knowledge of details, but a broad comprehension of what has been treated. A thesis then is often the fairest test, both of ability and of work done...
Moreover, several of the colleges of higher reputation, such as Corpus, Balliol, Oriel, New College, Christ Church, make that examination sufficiently severe "to be a test of the candidate's being likely to pass the honor B. A. examinations of the university in at least one school...
...student has finished his thesis, the faculty arrange a meeting and decide his fate. As is well known, there are no examinations, neither "Semis" nor "Annuals" in the German Universities, and practically all the work of three or more years is "ground up" in preparation for his final test...
...Amherst Student thus speaks of the advantage to foot-ball occasioned by the action of the Harvard faculty: "This interesting test case reinstates the game upon an equal footing with other inter-collegiate sports, while at the same time exerting a strong influence toward preventing its degradation from that honorable position...
...class organizations; the upper classes can simply point to the similarity of conditions in their own cases and ask that for the sake of courtesy, if for no other more patriotic motive, their successors in their turn bear the burdens they have borne. Every freshman class undergoes the same test as to its interest in college athletics, and no class, except the present, has evaded it. We cannot believe that the class of '89 is more unhappily constituted than its predecessors, or that, if a just statement of the case be made to its members, they will will refuse...