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...main object of all our examinations is to test individual proficiency with sufficient definiteness to enable the university to bestow its degrees and honors. Any such testing, however, must evidently be based on the character of individual work; otherwise it is not merely unjust, but it is a farce, pretending to represent what it really ignores. Now the character of individual work at Harvard varies with every man, and is resolvable only into the nature of the several courses he pursues. We must, therefore, lay down as a general rule for every examination, that it shall represent, in its method...
...Pope or Coleridge, Bryant or Tennyson; but, by all means, give the student a chance to express himself in verse. Give him a free chance by putting all of his class in the same crucible with him, and then turn on the heat. All will be under the same test, each will sympathize with the other, and all will come out with new opinions regarding poetry, and the Poet Chap' will find himself no longer without notice, and no longer encumbered with the despairing epithets of an unappreciative set of hearers and readers...
...test the matter in another way, the catalogue of the publishing firm was taken, which is recognized as publishing the most representative list of American books. Here strictly professional books were ruled out, and the authors divided into two classes, the dead and the living. Of the dead there are forty-two names. Ten, or less than one-fourth were not college men. Of the living, we count 133 names. Fifty-one, or more than one third, are not college men. Of course, this cannot be called a scientific test, yet it approximates such a test, and shows with tolerable...
Saturday was a clear, cold day, and the spectators who gathered on Holmes in the afternoon to witness the athletic sports, were put to as great a test of endurance as the men who contested the various events. A strong north-east wind blew acoss the field, and prevented the runners from making fast records. The track, however, was in excellent condition, and had the weather been more favorable, records would doubtless have been broken. The number of entries was unusually large, and many of the events were closely contested...
...effect that "time and tide wait for no man." Years of experience have convinced nearly all the denizens of this world that the saying, like many others of a kindred nature, contains a very large proportion of truth. In fact this truth has stood the test of so many seasons that it has ceased to be a subject of more than passing thought to anyone. Now, when a man; in the face and eyes of the world, or at least so much of the world as is contained within the walls of Memorial; in direct opposition to all the behests...