Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...find their way into almost every paper in the country. It is at least courteous that those who have so eagerly published elaborate reports, should be as eager to publish denials of them, especially if undenied, they are likely to do injury. Such courtesy as this, however, unfortunately is far from being common, and because so uncommon is always highly appreciated...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Now that the Conference Committee has ended its consideration of the marking system, the question may fairly be asked, how far it has fulfilled its purposes; to what extent it has satisfied student expectation. We see that much criticism of its non action has been ill-timed, when we recognize the difficulties connected with the subject with which it has to deal. Before any conclusion leading to an improvement of our status could be arrived at, much time necessarily was consumed. Hasty action would have been very undesirable. But we did expect the committee, taking...
...result that three months of conference have produced two resolutions that, as regards weight of thought, could just as well have been passed at the first as at the last meeting. By results students at large must judge the committee. It is surely to be regretted that results thus far have been unsatisfactory...
Resolved, That it is desired that by this change the inequalities of marks arising from different degrees of work required in different courses, and from different standards of marking pursued by different instructors, as far as possible, be removed. The system proposed by Mr. Furber, and which met with general approval, was that of marking by classes, instead of by exact percentages. These resolutions passed at this meeting will be submitted to the faculty as the formal opinion of the conference...
...only subordinate importance; and the student is made almost entirely dependent on his careful attention, quick perception and selective faculties to obtain in proper shape a digest of the instructor's lectures. These digests, together with the results of outside reading, give the student a collection of facts far superior to the best of the text books. This may be said advisedly for the first effect of the concentration of mind in taking notes is to make an impression on the brain, which when appealed to by the notes in review gives them almost the freshness of spoken words. Then...