Word: tested
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that the College has partially pledged itself to march in the city's parade on June 3, it seems that the managers ought to take hold in a wholehearted manner. Very little has been done to test the general feeling of the students. A single appeal appeared in the CRIMSON, and although this stated that blue books would be placed in Leavitt's, Thurston's, and Memorial, no books were put in the last-named place. There has been very little effort to persuade men to enter...
...junior English. Instead of four forensics being required as formerly, only three will be required next year. During the first half-year, however, besides the lectures, there will also be classwork. In the class-room there will be talks on the principles of argumentation, and exercises to test the student's knowledge of these principles...
...Harvard men can never be justly accused of snobbishness. As Mr. Hurlbut says, nowhere is there a more democratic community than this University. Individual worth probably counts for more at Harvard than at any university in the country. A man who comes to Harvard is subjected to a severe test, but if he proves true to himself and an earnest worker, he is immensely respected, and his influence among his fellows is great. The best men, the men who will afterwards become the best citizens, are not those who tell the world of everything they do and everything they think...
...proposed system would not adequately test the student's work.- (a) It could not fairly test his grasp of a subject as a whole.- (1) Successive hour examinations on particular periods would not so test his work.- (x) No one of them would apply to his work as a whole.- (2) A final hour examination on the work as a whole could not be a fair test. (x) Not more than two or three general questions could be given on such an hour examination.- (A) Time must be left for special questions.- (B) Not more than seven or eight general...
...proposed system would comparatively discourage the getting of general views.- (a) The present system lays stress on such views.- (1) It demands review of semi-annual periods.- (b) The proposed system could not lay stress on such views.- (1) It could not adequately test them, as was shown above...