Word: cent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...commencement programme. Here his name is printed in the list of the men who are supposed to write "orations." But take the case of the man of general intelligence, who, however, has not devoted himself to any special topic. He has attained an average of eighty-five per cent. in his three years' course, and therefore gets a degree magna cum laude, a grade below the other man. Of course every student knows the relative value of these degrees, obtained under such circumstances, and that the "magna cum" man is generally a better representative of Harvard than the man with...
...favoring "specialists." The man who takes a general course suffers, from the fact that he did not devote himself more to one subject. It is well enough to encourage men to pursue a special line of study, but to give a man the same rank for eighty-five per cent. in eighteen hours that another man gets for forty-two hours of general work is too much of an incentive...
...done faithful work in his courses is but little difficulty. A man who gets honors in any subject, receives a magna cum laude degree practically for eighteen hours work. But for a man to get this degree in regular course he must attain a mark of eighty-five per cent. in his last three years, i. e., for 42 hours a week, a mark that would certainly give him honors if he took six courses on the same subject. So that a man practically gets the same degree for eighteen hours work that another man gets for forty-two hours...
...Columbia Spectator pays a dividend of 10 per cent. to all stockholders from the past year's profits...
...Howe, Ranlet, H. L. Smythe, Johnson, Sanger, Moors, G. D. Burrage, E. T. Cabot, J. E. Davis, A. M. Lord, Sprague, Brackett, E. P. Warren. These parts are given on the rank of the three past years, orations being assigned to those whose average has been over ninety per cent., dissertations to those over eighty, and disquisitions to those over seventy-five. This list will be revised just before commencement, at which time those who have received highest honors will be given orations, honors will receive dissertations, and under certain conditions honorable mention disquisitions. As many of these write parts...