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...years wealthy Pittsburgh has heard symphony concerts only at the hands of strolling bands of players from other cities. But soon, if all goes well, it will have a high grade orchestra of its own. Under vigorous leadership of Mr. Oscar W. Demmler, its Musicians' Club has inaugurated 2,000 for the support of a permanent organization. The appeal is being widely broadcast, for its designed to attract many patrons of moderate means, rather than to be dependent upon the generosity of a few wealthy individuals...
...system between the General Electric and several companies engaged in distributing electric bulbs, as preventing competition. The petition declares that the Company does a business amounting to about $50,000,000 a year. General Electric claims patent rights for the exclusive manufacture of tungsten filaments used in the better grade of bulbs today...
...matter of fact, all the Office requires is a grade. It is only the nature of the course, or the laziness of the instructor that makes this grade depend on one short test. Certainly it is not the best interests of education that demand...
...requirement of the Office is, in turn, the result of the conception that the student must be "jacked up," and the grades offer bases for disciplinary action. But to form a correct opinion of a student's merits from his grade on an hour examination is scarcely possible. The good student may have momentarily neglected the short period covered in his attention to another similar period, or to the whole matter of the course. The poor student may have found local difficulties which would have disappeared later. The judgment of an "hour exam" is but a "snap" judgment...
...true that there are courses in which the subject matter can best be learned period by period. In such frequent tests have their value, either as signposts to the goal or as steps up the grade. It is true that there are students anxious to "check-up on themselves" every so often. In such courses tests and even hour examinations are of course at the option of the instructor. For such students optional tests might be advisable...