Word: testings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...customary four hour examinations upon which the entire year's work at the Law School depends, are apparently regarded as insufficient test to qualify students for promotion. A new and more stringent means of testing the student's calibre has been devised to supplement the nervous and mental strain of the present system, namely, the requirement that student work under fire--or more literally, in the immediate presence of a roaring steamshovel. Uninterruptedly, save for one-half hour at noon, it puffs and snorts and hisses forty feet from the open windows. No longer, aparently, can one get through...
...people who are unaffected by such noises; but they are in the distinct minority. At the other extreme are those who are very greatly affected, particularly when they are keyed up to a high nervous tension for taking examinations that mean everything to them. It seems that this new test places a premium upon temperament rather than mental and legal ability...
Such an examination or test, coming as it does all at once on top of the others is palpably unfair; the students should be notified in the catalog, so that if they are of the temperament which makes them susceptible to violent and tumultuous distractions during examinations they would know that the Harvard Law School was not the place for them...
...test brings up at once the question whether an examination in English literature is likely to be a test of the brain in a proper sense of the word. Memory is a mental function, and it is more or less inevitable that the student with the best memory is going to show the best answers to such a test. The young men, that is to say, did their bust not so much to tell what they thought or to show how they could think as to tell about thinkers and show that they remembered of what thinkers have thought. That...
None of the young men, it is probable, produced any literature within the same space of time allowed for the examination. For any of them to have done so would have been so phenomenal as to upset the assumptions under which the test was planned in the first instance. For that matter, if Yale and Harvard could at will turn out young men prepared to produce literature on short notice the whole prestige of literature as a rare art would be gone. Pallas News