OTTERBEIN .f'.EGIS VOL.
XIII.
WESTERVILLE, OHIO, DECEMBER, 1902.
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E'1itorial ~XAMIN ATIONS are beginning to come in thick and fast; and with them the usual cramming on the part of some of our students in order that they may be able to pass these tests. Most of the students in Otter bein University are very much opposed to st1tjfi1tg for examination, yet, a few are still evidently guilty of it. There are many other ways in which the record for a term's \\ork can be made up and probably much more agreeable to the student, but it is, neverthe less, true that examinations bring some good results. They show the student how much of the work he has assimilated ; they bring out the parts he has neglected and keep him from that delusive thinking that he has completely
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mastered the subject; they act as incentives to more careful habits of work. To the stu dent who has been honest and faithful in class room work, m 1king each recitation count, examinations are only a pleasure and such a one need have no fear of failure. It is only the man who has a 5ttperficial knowledge of the subject who fears the test. Since now the Faculty has gone back to the old method of final examinations, lessons prepared for mere recitation will not be suffi cient, but must be prepared to be remembered. "['HIS is a day of advertising: Every daily "ll"" paper anJ every magaztne devotes a great amount of space to advertisements of various kinds. Telegraph and telephone posts, and every frontage within the city limits, where it is permissible, are covered with signs of some description. All this rep resents vast sums of money. Five and ten thousand dollars is no large amount for lead ing business houses to spend j early in this department of their work. In this way firms have made themselves known all over the United States, and have exteQded their busi ness from their own city to every state. Times have come to these establishments when they have enlarged their facilities in order to make themselves able to supply demands. Money spent in advertising has made them wealthy. Others have considered money thus spent as wasted. If they advertise at all, they do it on a very meager scale. As a rernlt, the reader never hears of them, or if he happens to be one of the few that does, he at once judges the business to be in proportion to the