Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That examination is an art, and that its cultivation will remove many of the ills of the present academic order is the mind-stirring thesis set forth by President Lowell in the current Atlantic. He looks to a test to serve three purposes: it may be a yardstick of pupils' progress, an instrument of education in its own right, or a fixed standard of achievement. "One of our difficulties has come from paying almost exclusive attention to the first of these objects...
...final examination period the salient fact stands out that a superficial knowledge embracing many facts which one cannot hope to retain is more profitable than a modest and a sounder one. When the examination impends there is no longer time to think, only to memorize. That examinations test memory rather than mental power is the most cogent criticism against them...
Coach Samborski plans to use his reserves as far as possible to test them out in the first game. J. W. Filoon, at center, D. J. Connell and E. M. Mahoney, forwards, and R. R. Ketchum, a guard, are likely to figure in the play before the final whistle sounds...
...early part of next week an opportunity will be given all members of the class of 1929 to enter the Club by means of a simple preliminary test to determine the range and quality of voice of each man. No previous vocal experience is at all necessary in order to join the organization...
...squad was selected from the showing of the men in the fall tournaments, instead of by a series of indoor test matches, as last year. This gives the men in write activities a chance to join the squad immediately after their season is over Smith is captain of the basketball five while Pratt is left defense on the hockey team...