Word: cents
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...campus at Cornell University is illuminated every night with electric lights at the expense of a cent an hour, leaving no chance for mischief in the dark...
...expect men who take my course to be willing to work. I see you are not anxious to profit by your history. Very well, sir, if you do write the thesis it won't add anything to your mark. If you don't, I shall take off twenty per cent. I mark according to the state of a man's health, the size of his head, and my general idea of the time he goes to bed. I give the highest mark to the man who gets worst used up by the course. You are looking altogether too well...
...amount of studying for marks. Under our present system, some of the Commencement-part men take easy courses to help on their general average; under the new system there will be a greater rush for the easy courses, in order that men may get in them eighty per cent, and "honourable mention." Any one who takes a look at the new scheme will see how prominent a feature marks and averages...
...stand well in a certain subject, and no others, should try for Final Honours; they are for specialists, and convey great distinction. A student who does not care enough for his special study to take honours in it, or for other studies to get an average of eighty per cent, ought not to complain if his merits are not rewarded by a place on the Commencement programme, and should be satisfied with the credit given him each year on the rank-list...
...bring up his average by closer application. If, on the other hand, he has done well, it is equally important that he should be encouraged in his endeavors. Men look at marks in different lights. One may think that he has done well in getting seventy per cent, while another, working for honors perhaps, would think the same mark too low. Whatever may be the pleas for and against marks, as long as we have them at all, it is but just that the student should know the result of his labors, and that, too, as soon as possible after...