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...real test of the trip will be against McGill, since the Canadians have developed a powerful team will also have the advantage of playing on its home rink. The game will be in the Montreal forum...
...test the strength and flexibility of the Federal Reserve system there were three major inflations during the decade: 1) the boom in western farm land values followed by the long collapse of Agriculture; 2) the rise and fall in Florida land; 3) the boom of "Coolidge prosperity" followed by the stock crash and Depression. It was the last that brought the Glass committee into action...
...atmosphere of uncertainty on matters of faith, there are special difficulties in [getting young men to subscribe] to the formularies of the Church. There can be no question but that the Church must satisfy itself of the faith of those to whom it gives a commission to teach. Some test is indispensable. But there is increasing agreement that the Thirty-Nine Articles [Anglican creed, formulated 1576] in their present form are unsuitable for this purpose...
...considerations which we believe excuse the examination system as it exists today, with all its psychological brutality and its inadequacies, as a standard of cultural measurement. When one considers the recent statement of the New York World that "examinations are a pretty sorry way to test knowledge and absurdly out of joint with the modern world," he is forced to admit that on the face of things the opinion might hold water...
...serves as a kind of compensation for energy expended. It offers an opportunity of a sort for a man to check up on himself, to give direction to his efforts. Of course, too often examinations bring a rigid limiting influence that makes for fact-cramming but that type of test is here, at least, happily tending to disappear, giving rise to questions demanding more comprehensive, integrated knowledge. A third feature of examinations is the forced review of the course as a whole, which they necessitate. Again and again men will find that this retrospect gives unity and meaning...