Word: cent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...place of this system the Student Council recommends one which will do away with the evident faults outlined above. Instead of making the mid-year and final examinations count from fifty to eighty per cent. of a student's work in a course, the Council recommends that a system of regular hour examinations at frequent intervals be substituted, the mid-year and final examinations being counted much less than at present in making up the grades in a course. Under such a system regular study would take the place of irregular and uncertain endeavor; more regularity in work would lessen...
...given to other subjects. On the subject of athletics the most interesting article is one on Harvard's Captains by H. S. Ballou, Jr. The purpose of this article is to show what becomes of our University captains when they leave college. The author points out that 13 per cent. of the captains of University baseball, football, and crew prior to 1905 are mentioned in Who's Who. and that this is slightly higher than the number of Phi Beta Kappa members so recorded for the same period. The author modestly admits that this does not prove very much...
...future growth of the enterprise. Furthermore he must be able to make recommendations, graphic charts, and reports which will convince a board of directors that the project will be a success. In other words, the engineer must have a constructive and administrative mind. It is conceded that 75 per cent. of the successful engineers are those who are combining executive ability with their technical training, and meeting the approval of their employers, the business...
...that there exists no just basis for determining relative rank. Because of the wide variations in the standards of marking on the part of different professors, two pieces of equally good work very often receive varying marks. In certain courses the Rank List will show that about 20 per cent of the members received grade A, whereas in others only 4 or 5 per cent are A men. How, then, are the records of men graded according of different standards to be compared in the award of distinction? Nominally, one man may make a scholarship record far better than another...
...result of a straw vote in the Harvard Forestry School for the next president of the United States, Roosevelt was elected by a majority of seventy-five per cent...