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...round table," and Cleveland, Bayard, Sherman, Carlisle and a host of other celebrities are "self-made men." Suppose that there are in the United States 10,000,000 men above the average age of a graduate, and that 100,000 of them are college alumni. Now applying the common test to Congress, it is necessary to prove not that this and that prominent member, that a great many members or even an overwhelming majority - but that more than ninety-nine per cent. are not college graduates. And for valid statistics against a graduate's comparative chances for Presidency, it would...
...honestly you must at once understand that this literal was in the mind of the general people as deeply rooted as ours in the legends of our own sacred book." 8. Why do the fine arts afford the best measure of civilization? 9. How far is technical skill a test of the excellence of a work of art? 10. The influence of Sebastian Bach on instrumental music. 11. The scope of descriptive or "programme" music...
...ideas on a number of disjointed questions. On the other hand, in answering but few questions, or even one very comprehensive one, you can show not only a knowledge of details, but a broad comprehension of what has been treated. A thesis then is often the fairest test, both of ability and of work done...
Moreover, several of the colleges of higher reputation, such as Corpus, Balliol, Oriel, New College, Christ Church, make that examination sufficiently severe "to be a test of the candidate's being likely to pass the honor B. A. examinations of the university in at least one school...
...Amherst Student thus speaks of the advantage to foot-ball occasioned by the action of the Harvard faculty: "This interesting test case reinstates the game upon an equal footing with other inter-collegiate sports, while at the same time exerting a strong influence toward preventing its degradation from that honorable position...