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...Corporation would have to advance the money for this building, and it stands ready to do so, though it feels that a more determined effort should be made to supply the increased demand with the present accommodations. President Eliot, especially, felt that the Dining Association should at least test the hotel system at Memorial by an experiment...
...just at present it is very pleasant for us to reflect occasionally that we are not altogether without students who can manage large interests well. A few years ago the general inefficiency of our student athletic managements made us doubt very gravely whether student managers were of the sligh test use to the college...
Greatly stimulated by recent developments, research has almost become a universal test of professorship, for the teachers who do not stimulate their students to research are not likely to be successful in the lower parts of their subjects. especially in the scientific studies...
...second function is distinctly more complicated than the previous one, yet it is no less a test of a university's activity. Johns Hopkins was the first university to begin this thing and probably saw in it the means of making itself better known. From this beginning others have sprung until our own university publishes no less than eight papers, covering every variety of scientific and literary research...
...just this point that Harvard has made a stand. At Harvard first of all colleges was abandoned the time-honored custom of requiring certain passages from the classics for admission. Now the stress is laid mostly on the ability to translate at sight. This was a substitution of a test of power for a test of memory. This change was adopted in other requirements. Although this idea of acquiring power rather than knowledge has only been put in practice about fifteen years it has got a firm hold on the institutions of the West...