Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...corresponding grief in case of failure; in both cases, by narrow margins, the marks are given out, and perhaps one finds another man has beaten him by one or one and one-half per cent. Thus it runs down in the rank of scholarship, and hardly any ambition satisfied except that of the man at the head. The honor is usually a very empty one, a mere question of marks and marks. Thus, in many cases, the principal outcome is an extreme regret and disappointment at not having done just a little better. Turning to the "popular side...
...evil consists, we conceive, in the general practice of giving men their marks after each examination. The distinctions engendered are trivial in reality, but are usually the cause of much dissatisfaction, except to those happy-go-lucky creatures who do enough work to pass with certainty, and do not care for high rank. By certain general groupings - "very good," "good." "fair," etc., down to "not passed" - a sufficient distinction might easily be made in point of scholarship. If a man is working for honors, and deserves them, let him be informed of his success, and the man who fails...
...college is not indebted in the slightest, and students who are alive to their own interests should rally to the support of one of their number who is equally obliging and vastly more deserving. I write this solely as a matter of general interest, having no personal interest whatever except such as is shared with all students of the university in common...
Voted That as the auditor's accounts have been fully and carefully examined and found to be substantially accurate, except the mistake in applying the reserve fund for repairs, losses, etc., to the reduction of the price of board for October and November; that any lack of confidence in the financial management of the hall is not warranted by the facts of the case...
...Post discussed Oscar and his critics at some length in its editorial columns, and speaking of the freshmen, moralized as follows: "At Music Hall, for instance, he dealt with a situation so embarrassing that it should not have been permitted except by his own express consent, which very likely was given, in a practical and highly sensible manner, which robbed the conceited bumptiousness of a number of young cubs - of more importance now in their own eyes than they will ever be hereafter - of many of the strong effects which they expected it to have." "The conceited bumptiousness...