Word: students
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tests as given yesterday at Columbia took two hours and fifty minutes, including a ten-minute period for practice with the new style of examination. An examiner, with a stop watch, presided over each group of forty or fifty. The test was divided into four parts. Each student was given at first two sharp pencils and a printed pamphlet of questions. The examiner took his stand and at a set time said "Go." Each question, or puzzle, or test--and there were hundreds of them given each person--had to be finished by the second hand and the candidate...
...first two tests were concerned with the powers of perception and observation. A man was told to pick out the smallest square in a bevy of squares, to mark words with similar meanings in a jumbled collection, to unravel sentences. One test required the student to pick the proper answer to a question out of four possible ones given. For example...
...Buckley Scholarships for the year have been awarded to: Horace G. Killman, 1st year. Business School; J. Spencer Love, 2d year Business School; Bliss Scholarships: Henry B. Pierson, Bussey School Student; John Nelson Spaeth, Bussey School Student...
...which has been established in the Trophy Room of the Union presents a striking resemblance to the High Table of English universities and some American schools. For the past few years, the Colonial Club has been the only place where members of the Faculty could dine together or invite students to dine with them. Some few professors have entertained members of their classes in their homes, and some have had afternoons and evenings when they would welcome callers. But there has been a general lack of frequent intercourse between student and instructor, doubtless due in part to the indifference...
...Endowment Fund is coming in, it is hoped that, among other improvements, the Faculty will be able to devote more time toward maintaining cordial relations with the individual student. The Faculty Lunch Room may become a veritable High Table, with its several undergraduates invited to take lunch with their friends in the Faculty. And perhaps the homes of the professors will be more frequently visited by members of the student body...