Word: protested
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wish to protest on the part of the students against the present system of hour examinations. Such examinations are perhaps useful in moderation, and especially so in elementary and large courses where the instructor can not form a definite idea of the work done by the men in the course. At no time have hour examinations, special reports and theses been so numerous as at present, at the end of the term, and it is against what we think to be an abuse of this feature of our college work that we wish to speak...
...appreciated, and Virgil was held in higher estimation. With the revival of letters, at the period of the Renaissance, the Greek language began to regain much of its lost power and Homer to reassume his proper place in literature. England has the credit for the first protest against the position which criticism then accorded Homer in literature. Chapman, and later Pope, by their translations of his works, did much to arouse the world to a sense of the real superiority of Homer to all other poets. From that time he has been studied with increased interest and greater intelligence...
...protest is supported by vigorous articles by Professor Max Muller, E. A. Freeman and Frederic Harrison. All are severe in their denunciation of the evil tendencies of the competitive system; but perhaps Professor Harrison more boldly attacks the system than the others when he declares that it "is bullying, spoiling and humiliating education. Examination papers, not textbooks, have come to be the real objects of study. The system of distinction and prizes is absurdly overdone. Art, learning, politics and amusements are deluged with shows, races, competitions and prizes. Life is becoming one long scramble of prize winning and pot hunting...
...water; and it may well do so, for it is upon a subject-the merits and demerits of the present examination system, which has been much discussed among us of late, and is one of the problems which American educators must next solve. The discussion originated in a protest against the system of competitive examinations which appeared in the Nineteenth Century. This protest was signed by some of the most distinguished educators of the English universities and schools; all of the signatures covered fourteen pages of the review. The protest asserts that the examination has lost its true function...
...discussion has not been all on one side. As eminent men as Professor William Knight, H. A. Perry, and H. T. Humphrey have vigorously opposed the movement against the competitive system of examinations. However, an effort will be made by the signers of the protest to bring the matter to the attention of the Queen in order that a royal commission may be appointed to investigate the competitive system thoroughly, and consider modes of examinations which will do away with the present evils...