Word: testing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...make the students thoroughly understand that the committee is nothing more than a debating society where undergraduate opinion may be expressed without reason or responsibility, for if one's schemes are to have no effect, the wildest kind of phantasies will be indulged in by conservative members even. The test of practical application would make theorists a little more relieving in bringing forth their petted doctrines, but if then proposed and adopted, the college could locate the responsibility. Let it not be thought that we intend to disparage the sincerity or the labor of last year's Conference Committee...
...feeling of relief is felt throughout the college, now that the crucial test of the Princeton game is past. The nine henceforth goes on to victory, with the belief and trust of the whole body of undergraduates to strengthen and encourage them...
Here are eight years spent in instructing a branch which we are ready to throw aside after two or three years. Might not our University try to remedy this evil by applying some severe test in this branch of study at the admission examinations...
...round table," and Cleveland, Bayard, Sherman, Carlisle and a host of other celebrities are "self-made men." Suppose that there are in the United States 10,000,000 men above the average age of a graduate, and that 100,000 of them are college alumni. Now applying the common test to Congress, it is necessary to prove not that this and that prominent member, that a great many members or even an overwhelming majority - but that more than ninety-nine per cent. are not college graduates. And for valid statistics against a graduate's comparative chances for Presidency, it would...
...honestly you must at once understand that this literal was in the mind of the general people as deeply rooted as ours in the legends of our own sacred book." 8. Why do the fine arts afford the best measure of civilization? 9. How far is technical skill a test of the excellence of a work of art? 10. The influence of Sebastian Bach on instrumental music. 11. The scope of descriptive or "programme" music...