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...Acta Columbiana in commenting on several changes made in the marking system at Columbia recently, concluded its article as follows: "The Acta hopes that this slight change may be but the precursor of greater ones in the marking system itself. As the college course becomes more and more elective, and Columbia takes on more of the character of a university, the marking system, in its present form, must lose ground." The marking system in vogue in most of our American colleges has been strongly attacked by nearly every member of the college press, and is generally regarded...
...last number of the Acta fairly bristled with sarcasm on the N. Y. Sun and abuse of its literary taste. The cause of the explosion was a severe criticism in the Sun of a certain sentimental, rather "gushy" sonnet on love and the tender passions, that appeared in a late number of the Acta...
...often purposely ambiguous in order to hide ignorance, and that, in his experience of thirty years' teaching, "marking does not show, either absolutely or even relatively, the amount of a student's knowledge on any given subject." We should like to get the professor's ideas upon co-education. - [Acta Columbiana...
...SUIPER, do you know when you attempt to make a pun you remind me very much of Batkin's new paper?" "How is that, Dingus?" "Why, because you tri-weekly." Dingus will be able to attend to his duties about the first of March. - Acta...
...Acta Columbiana is not as good as usual. The New Set of Football Rules just barely misses being a very keen satire. Columbia College in 2000 is no doubt a very readable article to those who can appreciate all its grinds. A Climb and Its Results is flat, and not by any means up to the writer's usual standard...