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schools must to some extent take that position. 

 But in university work teaching and examining 

 must go side by side, hand in hand, day by day, 

 week by week, together, if the work is to be well 

 done. The object of a university is teaching, not 

 testing. Testing products comes at some times, 

 and for some special purposes, to be a necessity ; 

 but in respect to the teaching of a university, the 

 object of examination is to promote the teaching. 

 The examination should be, in the first place, 

 daily. No professor should meet his class without 

 talking to them. He should talk to them and 

 they to him. The French call a lecture a 

 conference, and I admire the idea involved in that 

 name. Every lecture should be a conference of 

 teacher and students. It is the true ideal of a 

 professorial lecture. I have found that many 

 students are afflicted when they come up to 

 college with the disease called " aphasia." They 

 will not answer when questioned, even when the 

 very words of the answer arc put in their mouths, 

 or when the answer is simply "yes" or "no." 

 That disease wears off in a few weeks, but the 



