Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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While the examinations are going on around us, we daily have the unfairness of examination-marking shown to us empirically. An instance of this was the unusual difficulty of the paper in German 5 yesterday in striking contrast to the extreme fairness of the papers in both English 6, Spanish 2, and Political Economy 4. To be sure, an instructor may, by marking easily on a hard paper, put himself on a par with an instructor who marks an easy paper hard; but the very difference between the papers makes it uncertain that he will do so. This...
...severe examination papers, that it is a pleasure to note the excellence of the paper given yesterday in German 3. It has been said that only the easy paper is "good" in the eyes of college students. Such a statement is absolutely false. College men will always give a fair paper all due praise, even though it be hard. The paper given yesterday by Mr. Wheeler was not easy; it was hard. But it was so arranged that every man who took the examination was able to show, not the poorest, but the best work of which he was capable...
...main idea in having lectures in contemporaneous history should be not so much to make men acquainted with the events which are happening before their eyes. as to enable them to read newspapers and periodicals with understanding. It is comparatively easy to have a fair knowledge of what is happening in the world, but it is often quite difficult to know the significance of those events, or to understand the great questions which agitate the public mind. It would therefore be valuable to all if some instructors would give a few lectures on the most important events and questions which...
...Yale News showed commendable enterprise in having a very fair wood cut of Professor Dwight in its issue of last Friday...
...club has recently been started at Princeton, and bids fair to be successful...