Word: testing
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...general examination at the end of the college course for which one should be preparing himself throughout his college course. Without denying the advantages of the present system of specific examination, he does maintain that it could be made far more effective still in combination with a more general test along somewhat different lines. The amount of information that the average American college graduate possesses, he believes, is not nearly so inadequate as is his ability to utilize that information, and to discover and make good his own deficiencies...
...spend the remainder of the time in discussion. Such discussion, if properly conducted, might well be profitable, but unfortunately it is often absolutely footless--a mere matter of form, and time thrown away. Obviously enough one question to be answered in twenty minutes can not always be a fair test of a hundred or more pages of scattered reading. Would it not be better, since the outlay for competent assistants is necessarily limited, either to have the short paper given in the regular lecture hour and omit inane discussion, or to devote the entire period to a more adequate test...
Aside from this the development of the team has been all that could be expected. The first severe test came in the Brown game, when the University team met an opponent with a heavy line, well versed in the new football. The work in this game was not as accurate or as fast as that against Amherst, and there was a decided lack of snap and dash in the offence. In the last quarter many substitutes were put in and Brown gained at will, almost scoring a touchdown...
...following Saturday Syracuse was defeated by the score of 12 to 6. This was the first real test of Yale's strength and the outcome was not particularly favorable, for the university team was scored upon for the first time since Harvard won two years ago. Reilly made a 25-yard run for a touchdown after receiving a long pass from Daly. Philbin made the other score soon after the game started, Yale having recovered a fumble on the 10-yard line...
...this evening at 6 o'clock. This race will be open to members of the University who did not run against Yale and are not on the training table. Cups will be awarded to the winners of first and second places. Men desiring to enter should take a strength test today...