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...year and half at the end of the third. (The course is only three years.) Being only prepared for the honor candidate, they are admirably suited to his demands. Thus they perform well their function of testing ability. But more important than this is the influence the Tripos Examinations exert on the student's entire course of study at the University. He is aware that they ill be the sole criteria by which his degree is awarded, and consequently the quality of his work is shaped by these examinations. Since they emphasize thinking and imaginative ability as well as mastery...
...other hand, if they continue their present policy of remaining aloof from partisan issues, it is difficult to sec how the move can be checked. By organizing the electorate in the districts, by focussing attention on the attitude of the representative towards the Townsend Plan, they can exert a measure of power whose weight was vividly demonstrated by the Anti-Saloon League...
...complete freedom from the Influence of powerful minority groups interested to see restriction and retrenchment in education. The threat of dismissal, however slight it may be, which is held over Professor Mather and the others in concrete evidence of the illiberal and undemocratic effect the oath bill can exert...
...denies the necessity of laws restraining the practices prevalent during the recent boom among a conspicuous few unscrupulous tycoons. Nor is there any doubt that the government must exert its power in preventing the recurrent disasters of depression. The question is not action or no action, but action good...
...Union will only exert its power when issues arise which are "clearly those of academic freedom or discrimination against individuals on the grounds of race, or of social, religious, economic, political opinions and activities...