Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tomorrow will bring another test of the present order. If the men of 1923 and 1924 want class officers, for the sake of tradition or for any other reason, they should be sure to vote tomorrow. But if they feel that officers are unnecessary, or that a new system of class organization should be tried, they should stay away from the polls. It is as absurd for a man to vote just because his roommate does or because he has a personal friend among the nominees as it is for him not to vote because he is too lazy...
...possibility of a strike such as this one is terrible to contemplate. But it is a possibility towards which we have been inevitably approaching in the last few years. No compromise can avert it, however long it may postpone it. Sooner or later we must face the test...
...principle of majority rule is not beyond criticism. But to the greater part of the people it seems, at least, the only acceptable form of government. Now we are facing the first serious test of the principle; the suffering which will be involved will not be inconsiderable; but it seems best that we settle the question...
Even the seemingly almighty examination system is only mortal, and will soon pass out to use. So, at least, says Professor Thorndike, of Columbia, famous as the father of the psychological-test-for-entrance-to-college system, and who now proposes another scheme of education reform. The old system of grading is demoralizing to students, depending as it does, upon mere chance, or "the stupid conceit and sardonic indifference of the individual instructor". The shocking results of such a system, continues Professor Thorndike, are demonstrated by the scandalous fact that at Harvard As are thirty-five-times as common...
...measured as carefully as weight, lung capacity, or blood pressure. Education is human engineering, and should be carried on like other sciences, with the use of units such as the foot-pound, the volt, or the calorie. The exact units to be used for each type of mental test have not yet been fully determined, but when they are, our capacity and achievement will be recorded by means of scientifically accurate processes. Professor Thorndike does not give the details of the method, but states that in the "Contemporary Civilization" course, taken by all freshmen at Columbia, a "prepared instrument...