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...annual dinner of the Crimson took place Friday night at Young's Hotel. A speech was made by Prof. A. S. Hill in response to the toast of "Our Alma Mater," and by Prof. Lanman and Mr. J. L. Bangs of the Acta Columbiana...
...year ago the Acta Columbiana was hard at work trying to start the Intercollegiate Press Association, but failed in its attempt. It seems to us that no harm could possibly come from such an association, but, on the other hand, its members would derive a great deal of pleasure and profit from its meetings. The Acta has recently received calls from various parts of the country to renew its work in behalf of the association. In reply to these calls, it says : "To all those who ask our aid for this we beg leave to say that last year...
...Acta Columbiana in commenting on several changes made in the marking system at Columbia recently, concluded its article as follows: "The Acta hopes that this slight change may be but the precursor of greater ones in the marking system itself. As the college course becomes more and more elective, and Columbia takes on more of the character of a university, the marking system, in its present form, must lose ground." The marking system in vogue in most of our American colleges has been strongly attacked by nearly every member of the college press, and is generally regarded...
...purposely ambiguous in order to hide ignorance, and that, in his experience of thirty years' teaching, "marking does not show, either absolutely or even relatively, the amount of a student's knowledge on any given subject." We should like to get the professor's ideas upon co-education. - [Acta Columbiana...
...Acta Columbiana is not as good as usual. The New Set of Football Rules just barely misses being a very keen satire. Columbia College in 2000 is no doubt a very readable article to those who can appreciate all its grinds. A Climb and Its Results is flat, and not by any means up to the writer's usual standard...