Word: briefe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very distasteful to many of us. For an instructor to give men D who deserve E, is to attempt to right one wrong by doing another. I say "to right one wrong," for is it not really an injustice to make so new and experimental a thing as the brief-and-forensic scheme a compulsory model to students who honestly believe that method of composition harmful to them? If we criticise the course let us do so fairly. Again, since some departments of the University mark lightly, others severely, is not the whole Harvard system of grading with its thirteen...
...Brief for the Affirmative.C. E. BRYAN and C. DICKINSON...
...communication in your issue of the 20th inst., assails an instructor or instructors of English C., because of the "severity" and "unfairness" in the marking of the preliminary briefs. Your contributor, however, shows a sad lack of just the training the very course he criticises aims to give. With splendid self-assurance, addressing himself to us anonymously, he adduces as his evidence "several cases" in which "practically" similar briefs received widely different marks. But what does he mean by the indefinite word "several"? Two "cases," or four, or six? And what by his adverb "practically"? Surely he is aware that...
Either we are an exceptional stupid lot, which our work in other courses do not always evince, or else there is something radically wrong in the way this course is conducted. In consideration that the brief, which has brought despair to many, was the first we have written, it seems that too great severity has been shown by certain of the instructors in marking. If the ideals of the course are high, so much the better, but let us be so guided that we may have hopes of reaching them. To try and frighten us into accomplishing this...
When the marks for the first preliminary brief were given out it was found that a large number of men had received grade E. On further investigation it has turned out that a very large proportion of these low marks were given to men whose papers were corrected by one particular instructor in the course. This gentleman has announced to the members of his division, that over half the students would fail in the course unless their work improved. From this I infer that he gave E to over half the papers which he corrected, which by the way, were...