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...capacity of "any youth of ordinary ability." This would mean, correspondingly, that a fairly large number endowed with more than that ordinary ability, would be entering each year at sixteen and fifteen, while several (the present fifteen-year-olds) would come at fourteen or under. Unfortunately, the examinations test only mental development; they offer no estimate of character or physique, and it is already plain to be seen that the first often grows far faster than the other two. And the report which he quotes, also, refers only to scholarship plus a negative quality called "conduct", which probably means that...
...such a course come the informational questions, not to test mere faithfulness of work but the grasp of the subject and the accuracy of the knowledge obtained. For this purpose catch questions are of doubtful value. All is one to the scholar but odds and ends slip away too easily from men whose grasp of the subject may be perfectly satisfactory but whose memory is less tenacious of details...
...Freshmen last Saturday the 1926 hockey team held a practice session in the Arena yesterday in preparation for their game tomorrow with the Cambridge Latin School and the one on Saturday with Brookline High School. The game with the latter will be the first real, test for the Freshmen as Brookline is considered to have one of the best high school teams in Greater Boston. The Crimson players face this year one of the hardest schedules that a yearling sextet has ever had, in- as much as the Yale and Princeton games both come in the same week. On February...
...system is used to grade the clubs according to cases won and lost. The four highest groups are retained for the semi-finals held in the fall of the third year, and as a climax comes the finals, a mock trial with actual justices on the bench. This concluding test involves, from the lawyer's standpoint, the important essentials of a regular case in court...
...students who desire to take the examination to test their elementary knowledge of French or German must apply in writing at 4 University Hall Before 5 o'clock this afternoon. The examination will be held on Monday, January 15, at 5 o'clock in Emerson...