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Coach Wachter's quintet will meet its second test of the season this evening at 8 o'clock when it lines up against the Bates College five on the Hemenway court...
...forced to wonder whether the method of award is entirely satisfactory. Entrance examinations are at best a mere indication of whether a man has the groundwork for a college education. They are in no way a test of his fitness to build on that groundwork--his character or his abstract ability to study. They have long been accepted grudgingly as a necessary evil; one of their worst faults is an incentive to study for the examinations rather than for knowledge, and this undesirable feature the Phi Beta Kappa prize would seem to emphasize...
...name indicates, a preparatory school aims to fit a man for higher education. Its work is not final, and a test of the specific knowledge which it gives is not a fair basis for judgement of its success. What should determine this is rather the student's record at college...
...encourages serious minded students to continue in college a good preparatory record. No doubt the Phi Beta Kappa prize fulfills a merited purpose; but this purpose is narrow. It is to be hoped that another award may be established which will be based on a less limited test of the training given by the school...
...Pasco to live there in comfort and to arduous work in the copper-mines, at an altitude in which most people would be able to do comparatively little on account of the rarity of the air. Scientists have frequently spent a few days or weeks at great heights to test the effect of the altitude on themselves, but the studies made on the natives of Cerro de Pasco will be the first of their kind...