Word: tests
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...five in three days. We fully appreciate the fact that it is not easy to make out the schedule, and that no arrangement, however good, would be perfectly satisfactory to everybody. These cases, however, seem to deserve especial attention, inasmuch as the consecutive examinations are of course no test of whether the man has worked faithfully during the past term. We do not believe that any one, however thorough his knowledge, could do justice to five subjects in five successive mornings and afternoons. The test is only one of mental and physical endurance, and a severe one at that...
...week by our Nine and the Manchesters, is the most astonishing development of base-ball possibilities yet recorded. Although the result was largely due to the remarkable efficiency of the pitching and the extreme deadness of the ball, yet it showed in a striking manner, and under the severest test, the superior fielding powers of our Nine, as well as their steady nerve and excellent discipline. The luck seemed to be entirely with the fielders as against the batsmen, but this always seems to be the way in a game where good fielding is done. The Nine have reason...
WHILE benighted Yale and Harvard are training for a trial of wind and muscle, our more enlightened brethren are arranging for a contest to test the powers of brain and "cram" developed by their several Almoe Matres. Besides the oratorical contest, various other events are announced with the following programme...
...work, but not of the right kind. To examine a man on a play of AEschylus and orations of Demosthenes and AEschines cannot make him a broad Greek scholar, but will only force him to cram these subjects till he knows them by heart. Such an examination is no test of his ability to read the language. Again, it is necessary for a well-educated man to be familiar with Herbert Spencer; but it is destructive to all true scholarship to urge students to devote so much time and energy to the study of a single author...
...different are the tests by which we try our friends' characters! What different standards do we form, and how variously do we apply them! A man's taste in pictures, in tobacco, in wine, and in society, all serve as touchstones, to be applied to him by one or another of his friends. Mere acquaintances judge you by your gait, your clothes, the sound of your voice, the tie of your cravat, and the smoothness of your hair. And even in this they do not seem to be consistent, often applying the test in an exactly opposite manner to different...