Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rule that weekly tests are rife with dishonesty, the honor system has eliminated practically every trace of underhanded methods. The opponents of the reform must admit that this is something of a gain. Mechanical, as they say the means are, they cannot deny that the end is reached. Better so-called mechanical methods than the former prevalent cheating...
Both teams fielded well, the Freshmen having the better of the argument, as three misplays were given the visitors, while 1914 made...
...Harvard do better service to the country by reducing the price of education, by adopting the German system of compensating professors, by favoring the leadership of the intellectual student, rather than of the athletic or convivial student, or by any other change...
...would seem desirable, therefore, to grant unclassified students Faculty advisers, or at least to permit them at their own discretion to ask for advisers. Such a plan would give the unclassified student the same advantages that are obtained by the Freshman. In addition, it would enable him better to co-ordinate work carried on at another college with that done here. Lastly, it would clarify his position by permitting him to obtain definite information at all times concerning courses and requirements...
...protection which the proctor's presence affords. It gives a significance to his grades and to his diploma which they would otherwise lack. It protects him from unjust suspicion in making inquiry about the time, borrowing a pencil, or in making other proper communications. The honor system may work better than inefficient proctoring as a discourager of cribbing; but if it is to be compared with efficient proctoring it cannot supply the element of guaranty, unless it involves the systematic spying of students upon each other and the subsequent prosecution of wrong-doers. As in the case of crime...