Word: tested
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Second - The system unavoidably fails, in some cases, to be a correct index of ability or industry. That would perhaps be a matter of small moment were it not that the public is prone to consider success or failure in gaining an honor the infallible test of a student's attainments. There are instances in which ill health, mobility to pursue a continuous course or other unavoidable circumstances prevent a student of genuine merit from reaching the required standard of excellence; and she is consequently, through no fault of her own, placed, in the judgment of outsiders, upon a level...
...year of the institution. These exercises differ from those of Harvard, Yale or any other of our colleges. The ten preceding days are devoted to the examinations. These final examinations are conducted by gentlemen not connected with the university and not acquainted with the students. This is a severe test, as all can see. The closing or graduating ceremonies are very simple. Visitors are admitted by ticket. Punctually at the hour, the procession - president, trustees, faculty, fellows, candidates for degrees and students - enter the hall, the president, trustees and fellows taking seats upon the platform. The president then makes...
Besides having entire confidence in their stroke, the boating men and the college generally believe thoroughly in the new style of boat and rigging used by them last year. It is said that the test of the boat was not made last year. They will therefore row in the same kind of boat, and the men will row in pairs. There have been some minor changes in the rigging, but practically it remains the same. The belief was so general last year that the race was lost through the bad steering of the coxswain, and the feeling against...
...their tour. This is, indeed, very gratifying, and the nation at large can certainly be congratulated that the wisdom of its one military school so far surpasses the combined wisdom and experience of the foremost colleges of the country. Perfect self-satisfaction, it must be admitted, is the surest test of progress and enlightened ideas, and in this respect West Point should be awarded the palm. These gentlemen in their report have passed some overt but severe criticisms upon our colleges, some of which are no doubt very just, but others it must be said smack strongly of that military...
...well as at Harvard are strongly opposed to the strict enforcement of the rule. There has been a general inclination to try the rule and see how it would work. But a theory which looked very plausible while as yet untried proves a failure when put to a practical test. The prospect of a general adoption of the rule does not grow brighter as time goes by, but, on the contrary, appears dimmer than ever. We still cling to our former position, therefore, in requesting the faculty either to rescind the rule or so to modify...