Word: scholasticism
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In recent years the attempts of the College Entrance Examination Board to devise more accurate tests of ability for college candidates have met with considerable success, as the popularity of the New Entrance Plan and the Scholastic Aptitude Test indicate. The tendency has been away from the pedantic checking-up...
The standard cannot best be raised by stricter academic requirements for admission and for awarding degrees. The man who leaves Widener with a sheaf of notes larger than the volume he has been reading can meet scholastic requirements perhaps even more easily than the original, mentally living, student. President Lowell...
Selection of students, based on general personal qualifications as well as on set scholastic attainment, should be the means, as it is in the Professional Schools, for weeding out the plodders. With the elimination of these men, whose theses are often more statistical records of insignificant events, professors would be...
The labors of the Committee covered more than a year, and ended in a report in 1903 stating, among other things, that the average amount of study was discreditably small, and that there was too much teaching and too little studying. It urged also "the importance of encouraging a greater...
The real hope for a more normal scholastic development lies in the possibility that due to a variety of reasons, the public attitude toward the true value of education is changing. The feeling that everything can be measured by material standards, though still strong, is nevertheless waning. The fact that...