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...have never rowed before are to report to Coach E. A. Wachter, who is in charge of all new men. Others who have already passed their sculling tests must sign up at Weld to take out either a broad comp, a narrow comp or a single. A list of sculling rules is posted in both boat-houses and all men should familiarize themselves with them. Moreover all beginners are reminded that they must pass a swimming test at the Big Tree Pool before going out on the river...
...representative if a type of teaching still too common. The major harm of such a system of small duties to the professor is that they discourage thought. No forty-five minute quiz, no five page report offers a chance to think. The discharge of such duties resolves into a test of memory or an assembling of a number of encyclopaedic facts in order...
...glory that was won by the victorious college has been in several instances distorted into an assumption of definite educational supremacy. The justification of this claim would hardly rest upon the results of such a test of strength. For no sense of educational value could be more false than that which would judge the relative merits of two colleges or their corresponding departments upon the comparative standards attained by ten representatives in a single field, however general. Such judgement might further lead to an unbalanced emphasis upon the importance of examinations as criteria of educational achievement...
...doesn't take it over to the Chem lab. Sure they will. They teach you how in Chem A. Ever take that, Bill? Yes, over in Boylston. When we were Freshmen. We used to make salt, too. Twenty-five grams impure they gave you. No, they don't test your stuff. I got nine grams yield and the rest from the Dining Halls. B plus. It's a cinch. Yeah, mine too. The thing got all clogged up with salt and the whole lab almost choked...
...wishing to pass the Red Cross Life Saving Test can register for the trials, beginning today. The tests will be given on Mondays and Fridays from three to four o'clock, beginning next Monday, March 18, and lasting through the remainder of the semester...