Word: unpreparedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In the midst of "April Hours", the news of any new type of examination, different from the present one, is heard with hopeful curiosity. At Yale, and several other colleges, objective tests have been substituted in some subjects for the kind now used, so that instead of writing an examination...
But elimination on the basis of scholarship is no more effective. Too many men enter college with high grades only to prove themselves unprepared to make the most of their opportunities by graduating "viser but not vider" as Mr. Weller expressed it. Others who barely pass their C.E.E.B.'s become...
Even though you have not the desire to live in foreign countries, do you desire your institution, the one with which you have thrown your lot, whether industrial, commercial, or financial, to be forced, in a few years, to enter Foreign Trade unprepared simply because there are no Americans on...
Since the future of aeronautics in America rests chiefly upon the army or navy, any appropriation intelligently used to further this development would seem to be a worthy expenditure. But the demand for high grants of money does not end with the flying division of our navy. Admiral Fullam describes...
To balance the entrance requirements so nicely as to admit the worthy high school man and at the same time prevent the tutoring schools from railroading unprepared students through the examinations is a task which required the most delicate adjustment. With present methods of examination it seems doubtful whether it...