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...seems to me that the true object of an examination is to find the student's proficiency in the subject as a whole; and that an examination-paper is not a good one, because it brings the average mark obtained on it below fifty per cent, but only when it covers nearly all the most important parts of the course, and is a fair test of the student's knowledge. Finally, to return to the former metaphor, a general would scarcely mass his forces on a point which is not even in the country he is defending...
...have on the "margin of cultivation" (to quote our amiable friend, Mrs. Fawcett) is uncertain; but a judicious use of the privilege will doubtless make the students' labor easier; a man may get through many subjects, with a recitation now and then, and perhaps get as high a per cent as now, by making use of some elaborate notes and one of Harpers' maturer Youth's Companions...
...ninety per cent, or yet more...
...NINETY-per-cent man at Commons really wants to know, and no fooling, how macaroni does grow, anyway...
WHAT is the law of the conditioned? 33 1/3 per cent...