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...imperfection of the present system of examinations and of class organization in our colleges. A lad with a certain gift of smartness can get through a term with a very limited amount of study, and trust to trick and device to save himself from disgrace at the final test." The Times further argues in favor of substituting regular weekly examinations, in place of the present system of annual or of term examinations. Then it says very strongly : "Under such a system, and with other equally necessary reforms, a college degree might be made to represent a certain understood amount...
...long time under discussion by many of the most prominent boating-men and physicians of the world, namely, the four-mile course in boat-races. All physicians, who have given the subject any thought or attention, unanimously agree that a race of four miles is but a needless test of a man's endurance, and that no man can row that distance, spurred on by ambition and excitement and straining every muscle at each stroke, without some serious injury, which is sure to make itself apparent sooner or later. Such a strain on both nerves and muscles...
...much less active, because both university professors and college teachers have become far more efficient than they were then. In England, examinations have become the main thing and practically control the teaching, although the true view of them would rather be that they should exist as a test of teaching. The examinations, though very old, had become purely formal in the last century: their present importance is comparatively recent. In the Cambridge Triposes, students have heretofore (for a change is now being made) been arranged according to merit. At Oxford the arrangement has been into classes according to merit...
...HAMLIN.There will be a test examination in History 5 next Friday...
There will be a test examination in History 5 today...