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Students who entered Harvard College with the class of 1914 must pass, before they can be admitted to the Junior class, a special oral examination to test their reading knowledge of either French or German. Any member of the class of 1914 who has not already passed this oral examination and wishes to take it during the mid-year period must notify the Recorder, University 4, in writing, before Thursday, January 26. Each candidate will then be notified when and where to present himself for the oral examination...
...clock; 1914, 6.45 to 7.30 o'clock 1911, 7.30 to 8.15 o'clock: 1912, 8.15 to 9 o'clock. All men, whether or not they have won the University basketball letters will be eligible if they are in good standing and have passed the strength test...
...general examination at the end of the college course for which one should be preparing himself throughout his college course. Without denying the advantages of the present system of specific examination, he does maintain that it could be made far more effective still in combination with a more general test along somewhat different lines. The amount of information that the average American college graduate possesses, he believes, is not nearly so inadequate as is his ability to utilize that information, and to discover and make good his own deficiencies...
...spend the remainder of the time in discussion. Such discussion, if properly conducted, might well be profitable, but unfortunately it is often absolutely footless--a mere matter of form, and time thrown away. Obviously enough one question to be answered in twenty minutes can not always be a fair test of a hundred or more pages of scattered reading. Would it not be better, since the outlay for competent assistants is necessarily limited, either to have the short paper given in the regular lecture hour and omit inane discussion, or to devote the entire period to a more adequate test...
...following Saturday Syracuse was defeated by the score of 12 to 6. This was the first real test of Yale's strength and the outcome was not particularly favorable, for the university team was scored upon for the first time since Harvard won two years ago. Reilly made a 25-yard run for a touchdown after receiving a long pass from Daly. Philbin made the other score soon after the game started, Yale having recovered a fumble on the 10-yard line...