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...notion of right and wrong is founded on experience, it would not seem to be at all effected by fatalism; and we have seen that fatalism does not discourage us in working out our purposes. The case is different, however, if we reject experience as the sole test of right conduct. For if right conduct be that which is intrinsically consistent and harmonious with our nature and the nature of our relations to all things, then any change in our idea of these relations will change our idea of right and wrong. In this way fatalism may have an influence...
This was, on the whole, the most enjoyable programme that Mr. Gericke has as yet given us, being varied and full of interest throughout. Some of the numbers put a pretty severe test upon the orchestra, but it was found lacking in very few places. What deficiencies there were, were chiefly in the Ruy Blas overture, a little unsteadiness being occasionally noticeable in some of the sudden and trying changes of tempo; and Mr. Gericke's reading seemed to arrive at the climax rather too soon, there not being a sufficient gradual working up to the close. The soloist...
...does not know. This is one answer to the question; and, if it be the only one, there must be very few college men who will deny the success of the present system of examinations. But examinations are not, or certainly ought not to be, only to test ignorance; the other, and in our opinion the more important, mission is, or should be, to test knowledge. Some may argue that there is only a very slight distinction, if any at all, between the testing of ignorance and the testing of knowledge; but it would seem that the right to such...
Probably there is hardly any one problem of education which has given rise to as much discussion and theorizing as this of examinations, how they are to be conducted and how far they are to be taken as a test. That the present system, which carries with it all the evils of the marking system, is unfair, is almost universally acknowledged; but that something is needed whereby to grade the classes and sections of classes, some measure or test of knowledge, is as universally agreed upon. Instructors say that they cannot do away with the present system of examinations...
...mathematics, of giving the new problems which are to be worked out upon each man's honor, and which are to count considerable in the year's work, has much to commend it to every earnest student. That an examination, written in a very limited time, is no test of one's knowledge or scholarship, is almost an axiom. This is especially true in mathematics where much of the work is original, and where it is perfectly possible for a man who has a firm grasp of the subject to be balked at the beginning by a simple problem. Examinations...