Word: 35a
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...industrial) Pierce 202 Engineering 310 Pierce 202 TOMORROW COLLEGE 9.15 A. M. Class. Philol. 32 Sever 18 Comp. Literature 8 Emerson A Comp. Literature 11 Adams to Calvert Sever 18 Childs to Lee Sever 23 Levison to Yantes Sever 24 Economics 9a Sever 5 English E Harvard 6 English 35a Abbott to Isber Emerson D Jacobson to Morehouse Emerson F Moynahan to Wolf Emerson J Fine Arts 3a Robinson Hall Fine Arts 5n Fogg Mus. French 1, sects, 3, 4, 5, 6 Zool. Lect. Rm. Government 13a Zool. Lect. Rm. Government 17a Harvard 5 Greek G Ailes to Mears Sever...
...result of Professo Kirsopp Lake's recent experiment in allowing his students in English 35a a course in the Old Testament, to choose between two methods of grading, 56 men out of the 168 enrolled, decided to be graded on the final examination mark only, according to statistics given out Saturday. Two lists were prepared, one of men wishing all the tests included in the final grade and the other of men wishing to be marked solely on the final examination...
...novel experiment in grading will be tried this year by Professor Kirsopp Lake, in English 35a, a half course in the Old Testament. At the first meeting of his class yesterday he announced that, since he had found differences of opinion as to how much the final examination should count towards the grade for the course, he would adopt two systems of marking. In one, the final examination alone will determine the grade, and in the other the hour examination and the occasional quizzes will count heavily in the final reckoning. At the beginning of the course each student will...
Professor Lake's experiment in allowing his students in English 35a to choose between two systems of grading is a step towards the millenium when the necessary evil of marking will be entirely done away with. At best marks are a mechanical method of recording knowledge, and at worst they are a false goal which hides the real purpose of education from careless eyes. For many undergraduates work for a C rather than for the opportunities which a course offers. Even among the men of highest distinction the mark seeker is in evidence...
Hastily gobbling "one egg" at the Waldorf, or strolling to Music 4, who has chanced to wonder what Galli-Curci eats at that selfsame hour? What student of English 35a would not be unlifted for having enjoyed Billy Sunday's conception of manna? Even the sleepy, rising late after an evening's enjoyment, might ponder while drinking their coffee, whether Otis Skinner were up yet, and whether he'd ask for one lump...