Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...September examinations, whether taken at Harvard or elsewhere, are no longer accepted as preliminary examinations. A boy who offers in September examinations which, if passed, will bring his total credit to 15 units, is a final candidate; but if he fails of admission at that time the examinations which he then passes cannot be used in a later year as credit toward admission...
...opposition to the new ruling seems to concentrate on the injustice of not permitting schoolboys to get credit for examinations taken in the fall unless they enter college in the same year. It is a well known fact that many men have gained a large proportion of their points for admission in these September examinations before their senior year in school, so that the ruling is likely to make a great deal of difference to all those entering the University hereafter...
...ruling may, it is true, be aimed at the professional tutoring schools who stuff their subjects full during the summer and have them disgorge their knowledge at the September examinations. It is hardly fair, however, to punish the innocent alike with the guilty. To take away credit in three or four examinations because of failure in a fourth or fifth does not seem quite just. If this plan is adopted as a measure to further limitation of enrollment, a statement should be made to that effect. At present commentators are balked by its apparent unreasonableness...
...could credit what they beheld when they arrived? The island crawled, swarmed, bristled, writhed with life. The Thinkwells were received by a pompous gentleman with long chestnut whiskers. He was Albert Smith, Prime Minister, son of the original Miss Smith who, aged 99, still ruled the island. Now the islanders, after 70 years of segregated history, had attained an astonishing civilization which was almost an exact facsimile of that from which they had been marooned in 1851. Miss Smith, an extraordinary old woman, usually drunk, had come to believe that she was herself Queen Victoria. She called her palace Balmoral...
Possibly it amuses Trader Cutten to see the agents of Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria anxiously watching their credit against the time when he decides to sell. A cartoon once depicted him ? a thin, awkward composed figure ? standing upon an elevation from which, with deprecating gesture, he tossed down handfuls of grain to grubby statesmen who scrambled for them at his feet. Ludicrously exaggerated as this depiction appeared, what it implied was, as a generality, correct; nor did it err in what it suggested as to the thinness, mildness, composure of Trader Cutten. Such...