Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undesirability of the examination lies in its inordinate length which, by the physical limitations of writing, precludes any opportunity for the student to show a grasp beyond the major elements of each of the poets. Inquiries reveal that the average number of words which students, in varied fields answering various types of questions, can write without having to pause is not over 1,300 words per hour. These figures will be admitted to be high, for many men questioned were amazed to find that others did write at such a rate. By applying these figures to the English 72 examination...
...unfairness of such an examination lies in the fact that it gives the man who has studied widely and searchingly; no chance to get beyond the general and elemental information which can be gathered at any tutoring school. In fact, the tutoring bureau notes used four times as many words, and that means that they were four times as varied and searching as the answers could be if the student planned his examination and kept within time limits...
...desire of the officials in charge to allow men to show what they did know instead of what they did not know. But the length of the examination cut short (because of the purely physical limitations of writing) the answers of those who were eager to push beyond the obvious and often repeated facts...
...appears to be such good sense that one wonders why he has kept it to himself so long. College athletics are in a ferment now, if one look to the press, but if one centers one's eyes on the universities, one sees authorities that refuse to look beyond their money-bags, meanwhile mumbling that all is well...
...hundred odd members. At Princeton the majority are content with liberty of choice in regard to a room-mate; they raise no formidable insurrections over arbitrary allotment to dormitories and Commons, or over a system of club elections by which their table companions are determined largely by factors beyond individual control...