Word: testings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...students in the College must pass, before the end of their second year, a special oral examination to test their power of translating either French or German. Opportunity to take either or both of these examinations will be given in the afternoons, beginning Monday, May 19. All candidates who wish to take the oral examination must notify the Recorder, 4 University Hall, in writing, on or before Thursday, May 15. Each candidate will then be notified when and where to present himself for the oral examination...
Entries for the annual spring track handicap meet close at six o'clock this evening. Any member of the University who has taken a strength test is eligible to compete in the carnival, which will begin promptly at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Entry books are posted at the Locker Building, Leavitt & Peirce's, and the Freshman dormitories...
Among the after-war athletic problems which the University encounters is the restoration of the annual race between the championship class crew at New Haven and Cambridge. That such a race is desired is undeniable: the oarsmen of sub-University calibre all are anxious for the test. As the race has been over the Basin course for several years past, it is likely, if rowed, that it would be held on the Housatonic...
...Mark's will test the ability of the Freshman nine much more severely than did Watertown. The Southboro team has played two games, both of which were decisive victories...
...History, Government, and Economics to other departments, the Faculty has taken an important step which, if properly carried out, should increase the interest in scholarship at Harvard. The general examination is a much more adequate gauge of a man's knowledge of his subject than a series of tests at the end of each course. The latter are specific and detailed; a student may cram his head full of facts and pass them, but promptly forget all he has learned. College does not aim to inculcate a mass of detail which may be applied per se in after life--this...