Word: defective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I should like to call attention to an apparent defect in the system of ranking by classes which is now being tried by many of our instructors. The classes cannot, of course, merge gradually into one another, but must be separated by certain fixed limits. These limits must be definite per cents...
...current events is a reproach often justly cast upon college students. The reason is indifference with some, lack of time with others. The average business men and the average high school boy are better posted upon every day happenings than the great majority of students. To remedy this defect in our education and to give men a clear understanding of those events which soon pass into history, it has been proposed by some that a course in contemporaneous history should be given. The great objection to this plan, which naturally arises, is the folly of attempting to do in this...
...This may sound fearful, but I have got such severe headaches from this tri-weekly broiling that I prefer to cut and grind up the course in the library rather than attend the lectures. A few curtains will not impoverish our lords and masters, and will cure the defect; - why can't they be hung there at once, especially as Mass, will soon be used as an examination-room...
...shower-bath at the gymnasium will not sprinkle. This is a serious defect...
...radical defect of our present marking system is that it ignores the basis of Harvard's educational system, - individuality in work and self-development. Our mathematical scale, based on an average of per cents, is really no basis for class-rank, under the elective system; for such an estimate of individual proficiency assumes, first, the absolute equality of studies different in kind, and then, as a natural consequence, the infallibility of per cents as a common measure of knowledge of these different studies. Both these assumptions are so plainly absurd and inconsistent with our theory of education, and the unjust...