Word: testing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are few surer tests-for fineness of intellectual fibre, and for that clearness of thought and expression which is essential to success and influence as a leader of men, than the test which is found in love for Greek and in proficiency in this study where the spirit of Athenian culture rules the class-room in which Greek is taught. [President Gates, of Rutger's College
...years ago when hardly a hint of professional taint or of undue excess was ever made. Indeed the gap between the two methods of reform is not so very wide. Not-withstanding these consideration however, we believe the college stands ready to accept the experiment of the faculty and test its new system with good grace and even with willing cooperation, provided that it be reasonably forewarned and be treated with justness and fairness so that its position may not become forced and unnatural, through inconsistent regulations, and ambiguous proceedings on the part of the faculty...
...when the ten really earnest Greek scholars in a class could get on no farther or faster than they could drag fifty others who cared nothing about it, is gone by. The results of our system you saw when Frayer and Schwerdtfeger and Miss Thomas carried off the high-test prizes for Greek at the various inter-collegiate contests. In Modern Literature, too, our courses have been bettered and extended. With two full professors and an instructor in German,-with the vigorous help in French which leaves the professor in that department more time for instruction in Italian and Spanish...
...reckoned in the first rank, either of poets or philosophers, whereas the truth has always been held to be that Emerson was the foremost philosopher that this century has produced. His poetry is often crude and deficient in form, but in poetic thought few men can exceed him. The test, or one of the tests, of originality is suggestiveness. And it is originality in any department which makes a man preeminent in that department. Certainly no man has been more suggestive than Emerson. Moreover we Americans ought not to like to see Emerson's intellectual proportions measured by a British...
...respect of all who had dealings with him. However disagreeable the office of dean may have seemed to some at times, no one ever found fault with the occupant of the position, To hold such a position in a manner satisfactory to both faculty and students, is the hardest test to which a man's judgment and popularity...