Word: papers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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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...
...Rembrandts about fifty in number. There are also half a dozen prints from Rembrandt's immediate followers. Many of these engravings are very beautiful, and it is interesting to know that most of them are Rembrandt's own work, and that he has, very probably, handled the very paper on which they are printed...
...Seminary Budget is the name of a four-paged paper published four times a year by some nice little girls in Mr. Perry's Seminary, Sacramento, California. Our first impulse was to drop it in the "dead" exchange basket; but suddenly we came upon this: "We are ready to exchange with all papers of high merit and literary worth." After such readiness, we can't refuse our aid to the education of these maiden Californians...
...free from all interference of the instructors in regard to this matter. At other colleges it is different. At Amherst, at the beginning of the present college year, Dr. Hitchcock, the supervisor of the physical education of the students, caused to be circulated in the Freshman class a paper by which all who signed were bound to neither smoke nor drink. Such a proceeding here would seem absurd. Few would sign; those who did would be influenced far more by their previous prejudices or a desire to oblige, than by a belief in its necessity or advantage. But it would...
...Roman Catholic Church this takes place at the age of ten or eleven,) he is finally withdrawn from school. The little he knows is now forgotten; for the peasant, once having left school, writes or reads no more. He has a natural horror of books and paper. He looks back upon his school days as the most unhappy of his life. It was then that he suffered and he abominates everything that was an instrument of his tortures...