Word: testing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Present method undesirable: (I). Not a satisfactory test of knowledge.- (a) Too large a field covered by one examination.- (x) Impossible thoroughly to test whole subject.- (b) Too great an element of chance involved.- (x) "Good luck" often a factor.- (y) External conditions unduly influential.- (1) Occasional indisposition of student. (2) Frequent excessive heat of final period.- (c) Men often fail to show their real knowledge.- (x) Owing to nervousness caused by issue at stake on one examination.- (3) Evil results upon students.- (a) Mental and physical strain.- (b) Moral relaxation.- (c) Encourages practice of "cramming."- (x) A knowledge sufficient...
...period between the vacation and the final examinations being so short, the good effects of the vacation have not time to wear off, and consequently the student feels well and strong to meet his examinations. In the hot June days he generally needs health and strength to stand the test...
...strength test competition will not be held this year until late in spring, when all the athletes will be in good condition...
...arrangement has been made at Cornell by which the stroke of the crew men can be tested. It is a steam indicator from the laboratory of Sibley college and arranged by simple devices to work under somewhat changed conditions. The indicator is placed in position on the rowing machine and connected with the oar handles by a cord, the record being marked on a chart, as in the case of a steam engine test. It is possible to determine the length of each man's stroke, how strong an oar he pulls. and at what point of the stroke...
...think of war: Nation LXI, p. 458 (Dec. 26, 1895).- (2) General appeal to bellicose feeling: Senator Walcott in Cong. Rec. p. 976 (Jan. 22, 1896).- (b) Tends to pervert standards of national honor and greatness.- (1) Insistance on immediate forcible resistance to "anything like an insult," as a test of national honor: C. E. Norton in Forum XX, p. 649-651 (Feb. 1896); Wm. James in Cong. Rec. p. 461 (Dec. 31, 1895); Nation, LXI, pp. 420-421 (Dec. 12, 1895); and ibid...