Word: resulted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...average age of candidates for admission, the attempt to cover the present field is ordinarily attended by a parrot-like grasp of unrelated details, but by no real mastery or assimilation of the subjects. If the examiners insisted on higher standards in fewer subjects, however, the result would be two-fold: the candidates would have to gain an intelligent command of these subjects, and the examiners would thus be enable to judge of their intellectual characters. Finally, not the least benefit of such a system is the fact that it would necessitate of itself the kind of training in school...
...result of this system of reports is that a student of no ability can do almost any report in almost any course without having done the slightest amount of work and with no knowledge of the subject. The line between fair and unfair work becomes exceedingly vague, because without copying a report a man may write his own on the basis of another's work, without doing it himself. Much criticism is now being heard concerning the quantity of theses which must be written, but these, at least, demand a certain amount of protracted thought, which is far more than...
...work is much more to be desired than ill-prepared quantity." This is putting it mildly. Under the present entrance requirements so much work in so many different fields is demanded that the candidate for admission is literally swamped with the multiplicity of subjects required of him. The result is that his knowledge amounts to but a smattering of his various courses. This hastily acquired and superficial knowledge, moreover, slips from his grasp too readily when the examination is past...
...result desired, then, is that each candidate for admission be equipped with a sound and thorough knowledge of a few fundamental subjects. The way to obtain this end, we believe, is by requiring of the candidate a less extensive knowledge, but insisting upon a thorough preparation of the given subjects...
...Shields then showed several beautiful slides of the larger wild animals, many of which are being saved from extermination only by the laws recently passed at the instigation of the League of American Sportsmen. One picture, showing five miles of bleached buffalo bones, was unusually effective in illustrating the result of the wholesale slaughter indulged in by the skin-hunters in destroying the immense herds of the middle west. In fact the establishment of the Yellowstone National Park has been the sole means of protecting many of the western animals from complete extinction. At present there...