Show HOSE dreaded examinations will be beJ T THOSE J- J upon us in a few more weeks They t. t are approaching with the unerring reguy regularity regu regu- f. f larity y of our printers printer's bills hills and it is to tobe tobe tobe be regretted that our Faculty so little fettered by chains and hampered by precedent has not abolished them en en- Every year is demonstrating more and more the utter uselessness and ineffectual purpose of written examination examination examination examina examina- tion and if we are to keep pace with the growing tendencies of the times we rr must give it a decent funeral and lay it to rest in the grave Indeed one or two of our professors have realized this fact and have to a certain extent done away with this obsolete and exploded notion of passing a student and giving him a certain percentage on the merits of his final examination paper Obviously Obviously Obviously the mans man's daily work in the classroom classroom class class- classroom room affords the only true criterion of his progress and with the understanding understand understand- ing that if he maintains a certain rank he will be exempt from taking the examination we venture the assertion that far better work will follow by affording affording affording afford afford- ing a stimulus to attain attai the necessary percentage What reason then is there for not discarding the written examination |