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...test brings up at once the question whether an examination in English literature is likely to be a test of the brain in a proper sense of the word. Memory is a mental function, and it is more or less inevitable that the student with the best memory is going to show the best answers to such a test. The young men, that is to say, did their bust not so much to tell what they thought or to show how they could think as to tell about thinkers and show that they remembered of what thinkers have thought. That...
None of the young men, it is probable, produced any literature within the same space of time allowed for the examination. For any of them to have done so would have been so phenomenal as to upset the assumptions under which the test was planned in the first instance. For that matter, if Yale and Harvard could at will turn out young men prepared to produce literature on short notice the whole prestige of literature as a rare art would be gone. Pallas News
...Mediation Board last December. Last week's Circuit Court decision upheld Judge Carpenter and notified the workmen not only that they would get 30 to 50 cents per day more pay on basic rates, but that railroad legislation was currently less obscure than formerly. It was the first test case...
...they admitted a shrewd arriére-pensée: "We will, by actually stopping broadcasting, be able to determine by test if the public is in favor of our return to the air. Our equipment and installation will be kept intact...
Many of the answers emphasize the fact that censorship is not only contrary to American ideals of free speech and a free press, but also that censorship is bad psychology and bad educational policy. I have had an opportunity not long since to test the psychological effect of censorship in the case of a "razz" sheet published by the George Washington University chapter of Pi Delta Upsilon, the national honorary journalistic fraternity...