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...does not know. This is one answer to the question; and, if it be the only one, there must be very few college men who will deny the success of the present system of examinations. But examinations are not, or certainly ought not to be, only to test ignorance; the other, and in our opinion the more important, mission is, or should be, to test knowledge. Some may argue that there is only a very slight distinction, if any at all, between the testing of ignorance and the testing of knowledge; but it would seem that the right to such...
...mathematics, of giving the new problems which are to be worked out upon each man's honor, and which are to count considerable in the year's work, has much to commend it to every earnest student. That an examination, written in a very limited time, is no test of one's knowledge or scholarship, is almost an axiom. This is especially true in mathematics where much of the work is original, and where it is perfectly possible for a man who has a firm grasp of the subject to be balked at the beginning by a simple problem. Examinations...
...were subsequently adopted by the Inter-collegiate Association. In June of the present year the Committee said to the Captain of the Harvard team for 1884, that the eleven would be allowed to play during the following season, on the understanding that the games should be regarded as a test whether or not the changes of rules had resulted in substantial change of the character of the game...
...college $500 a year for it, almost as much as the expense of a coach. Here is a great opportunity for the committee to show, what is doubted by a few ungrateful students, that they really have the best interests of the students at heart. Here is a test...
...well known than it becomes immensely popular, and every college throughout the Eastern states and several in the West, have taken up the game. Each year its popularity increases, and not only new college, but even amateur teams of gentlemen, are now being formed. So if popularity is any test, the game must be one worth cultivating...