Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particular more use might be made of theses, long reports calculated to test undergraduate grasp of particular problems. The conditions under which a thesis is written, sufficiency of time and availability of reference material, are ideal for the production of an adequate piece of work. The report of substantial length furnishes what the examination often lacks: an opportunity for original thinking. Already, candidates for distinction are required to submit a capable thesis before receiving their honors. And the research methods of graduate work are simply an elaboration of the same system...
...University polo ponies will be shipped by truck this morning to the Myopia Club and their riders will follow at noon for the second of the three test matches which have been scheduled preparatory to the intercollegiate tournament at the Westchester-Biltmore Club starting June 19. Following their well earned victory over the veteran Dedham quartet last Tuesday in defense of the Copley-Plaza trophy, the University mallel men are expected to win their two matches with the Myopians and proceed to Rye with an excellent chance to retain their college title...
Those who were not fortunate enough to view "Lucky Sam McCarver" while it lived, moved, breathed, and had its being can only determine its worth by reading--a test theoretically most satisfactory and at once most difficult, for a play is meant to be seen acted and not to be read. Obviously the experiment lacks certain dramatic elements, hitherto regarded as indispensable--plot, idea, and hero and heroine in the accepted sense of the words. Yet in just the same manner these alleged necessities are completely missing in John dos Passos' new novel, "Manhattan Transfer,' an innovation which has been...
...Myopia matches have been added to the regular schedule by Manager E. W. Mudge '27 in order to secure more practice before the supreme test of the intercollegiates. The encounters will take place on. Thursday and Saturday of this week against a team made up of North Share sportsmen. The same Crimson team that sees action today will probably be in the saddles at Myopia. Against them Dudley Rogers, Shaw McKane, his brother Harvey McKane, and Frederick Prince will ride, all Poloists of considerable experience...
With Yale and Harvard in opposite halves of the five-team draw, the final is expected to be a Crimson-Blue affair. The Tiger contest on June 19 is expected to be the crucial test as far as the Crimson Poloists are concerned With White back in harness, as Crimson followers are hoping he will be, the chances of the University squad will be materially increased...