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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Greatly stimulated by recent developments, research has almost become a universal test of professorship, for the teachers who do not stimulate their students to research are not likely to be successful in the lower parts of their subjects. especially in the scientific studies...
...just this point that Harvard has made a stand. At Harvard first of all colleges was abandoned the time-honored custom of requiring certain passages from the classics for admission. Now the stress is laid mostly on the ability to translate at sight. This was a substitution of a test of power for a test of memory. This change was adopted in other requirements. Although this idea of acquiring power rather than knowledge has only been put in practice about fifteen years it has got a firm hold on the institutions of the West...
...influenced the Advisory Committee, the probable causes seem clear enough at a glance. The simple fact was that the dates as arranged came far too early in the season. At that time Harvard's season is only just begun; and important contests with Princeton could not be a correct test of the final strength of the two nines. Although games with Princeton would in all likelihood strengthen our nine, we have to be careful, in arranging them, that Harvard play under fairly favorable circumstances. The dates and conditions as arranged put Harvard at a decidedly disadvantage in regard both...
...must have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm carries respect with it. However much we laugh at Henry George and his schemes for abolishing poverty, at General Booth and his plan for helping the poor of England, this enthusiasm compels us to listen to them. But enthusiasm is not the highest test of a man; it is the ability "to walk and not be wearied," to plod along day after day, and not give up the fight. Yet the prophet tells us that we shall have all this, if we will but serve the Lord. The loftiest emotions will come to us, our enthusiasm...
Some discussion having arisen as to the value of the strength tests made at the regular examinations at the gymnasium, the attention of the students is called to the opportunity now offered for a more elaborate test of the various groups of muscles in the body. The old tests are necessarily limited in number, and only those are used which are calculated to give one a fair idea of the general strength of the body...