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Show OlD YEAR'S WORK IN A NIQHT. College Man Who Proved the Worth-lessness Worth-lessness of Examinations. 0 Some college professors insist that the examination system is a failure and they can cite instances which they believe bear out (helslde of tho case. Ono of theso faculty men, a recent re-cent graduate from a large university, Bald: "When I was in college there was a man of great capacity who had neglected neg-lected one course from his freshman year when he got a condition. When It came down to his senior year he had to make it up, but he let it go until the very last set of examinations. Then he had to get it off or lose his degree. "This man knew so lljtle of German, the course In which he was deficient, that he could not even read tho printed print-ed words with case, let alone understand under-stand them. But ho passed tho examination. ex-amination. "He. went to a man. In his class who was proficient In German armed with sets of examination papers In that course foV about six years back. They picked oia the recurrent questions until un-til finally they saw jthat, there wore enough which wcro- Included in the various papers of each year to Insure In-sure a passing percentage. "This man, who as I said was of great capacity, then proceeded to memorise a correct answer to each of these questions. He had a keyword forench question, so that he would recognize it even if It were not worded exactly as the one on a previous paper. pa-per. "With this sort of. work, which took him about all night, he went into the examination and passed n off a year's work triumphantly." |