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Many courses of study in the College devote two hours a week to lectures, and a third hour to section meetings in which some test is given on the prescribed reading. Though this plan is, in itself, most excellent, as applied to courses in general it is open to one serious objection, which might easily be removed by some simple but uniform regulation. At present, a large majority of courses, especially in the Department of History and Political Science, devote the early part of the week to lectures and hold their conferences on Friday or Saturday. Thus a great many...
...meeting of the University Dining Council yesterday a proposal to permit smoking in Memorial Hall was considered. After discussion it was voted to test the sentiment of members by a ballot expressed as follows...
...Absalom, but his grown-up son, Gabriel. Joan knowing that her own mother possessed supernatural power decides to see if she has inherited it, and wills Absalom dead. He dies immediately, falling at her feet. His old mother Goodwife Abigail, suspects witchery and demands that Joan take the "test of touching." In this test she breaks down and admits that she is a witch. The audience is left to infer that she is hanged...
...entrance examinations is not to test the candidate's knowledge of facts, but to examine his intellectual power. The examiners try to ask, not "How much do you know"? but "Are you qualified to profit by instruction in Harvard College"? As a means of determining the extent of this qualification, a considerably smaller set of requirements would be more efficient; for at the average age of candidates for admission, the attempt to cover the present field is ordinarily attended by a parrot-like grasp of unrelated details, but by no real mastery or assimilation of the subjects. If the examiners...
...last point, the testing of fitness for admission, the desideratum doubtless is that all schools men should be admitted who by their ability to keep up to Harvard requirements show that they can profit by Harvard instruction. That the entrance examinations, whether given by Harvard or by the Board, sometimes fail to test this fitness properly, is as evident as that a course examinations may sometimes fail to measure accurately the work done by a student. The Harvard committee on admission, through its own examinations and those of the College Board, is adjusting as equitably as it can the difficult...