Word: tested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called basic courses, like History 1, Government 1, and Fine Arts 1c and 1d, never have been laden with an excess of the books demanded for collateral reading for each test. Since the directors of these courses consider the schoolboy system of weekly or fortnightly tests to be a necessary part of them, they might lessen the burden by more efficient administration of the library. It is inconvenient enough to be obliged to wait for books during the hours that the library is open, without being hampered by the further stringent regulations in force at Fogg. There one finds...
...botanical garden itself are represented all the tropical plants of economic importance. We test them out, determine which are best adopted to the Cuban climate, and try to find out if any could be transplanted successfully to other regions. In addition, we make constant exchanges with other similar establishments, notably that of the United Fruit Company in Honduras...
...Harvard Yale likes to take defeat with good grace, but we cannot refrain from observing that such a competition proves little of importance. Harvard may claim that she admits better material than Yale: she may even argue that her English department offers more thorough preparation for such at test. Yale would not dispute the point, because it is not worth a tinker's damn. It provides a source of raillery for Harvard undergraduates to use against their Yale friends: it probably also makes certain Harvard professors quite satisfied with their ability. But the "brain contest" does not alter the fact...
...have never rowed before are to report to Coach E. A. Wachter, who is in charge of all new men. Others who have already passed their sculling tests must sign up at Weld to take out either a broad comp, a narrow comp or a single. A list of sculling rules is posted in both boat-houses and all men should familiarize themselves with them. Moreover all beginners are reminded that they must pass a swimming test at the Big Tree Pool before going out on the river...
...representative if a type of teaching still too common. The major harm of such a system of small duties to the professor is that they discourage thought. No forty-five minute quiz, no five page report offers a chance to think. The discharge of such duties resolves into a test of memory or an assembling of a number of encyclopaedic facts in order...