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There exists in the College a rather minor rule that requires instrutors in full courses to test the work of the first half year on the final examination. It is a minor rule because it is an orphan. No one seems to enforce it or obey it. Hence there can be no protest against the educational injustice it might inflict by demanding detailed knowledge best forgotten. In its present status, the rule evokes comment only on the mild absurdity of its existence...
...Tomorrow the Freshmen face their first outside test of the season in the opening race of the regatta with Pennsylvania and M. I. T. If they live up to the expectations which have been raised by their practice showing tomorrow afternoon ought to see them a decisive winner...
Cambridge Police Headquarters tomorrow afternoon will be the scene of a demonstration at which Harvard mettle will again be put to the test...
Last week, Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis announced that there would probably be no Defense Day this year. The Department, he said, was not abandoning the day which General Pershing had sponsored, but would perhaps hold the test every two or three years...
Indicator. Dr. Botelho's test for the presence of cancer has been so far developed that last week the French Academy of Medicine announced that it has been perfected. Its principle is similar to that of the Wassermann test. If it detects cancer in the early stages, the Botelho indicator test will be of incalculable benefit, for one or another of the recognized cancer treatments can stop the spread of the disease when applied to early stages...