Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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When the members of an elective feel, almost without exception, that they deserve higher marks, it is highly probable that something is wrong, and in this case it seems to be the system. The whole division think that the instructor ought to raise all the marks, even though some would be over 100%. Yet this would only balance the minus per cents given in the elective...
...many feel thy dart...
...hoped that a better support will be given to the Nine this spring, especially when games are played in Boston and the vicinity, as it is very disheartening for men to train and spend their entire vacation in Cambridge for the glory of the College, and then feel that their self-denial and services are not in the least appreciated by those who should support them...
...been said that universities are the last places into which reform penetrates; but we feel that there is a tendency in the right direction here. If the German system were adopted, Harvard would no longer train up hot-house scholars, but men who would put forth their best energies, not for marks, but to assimilate their studies...
JARVIS FIELD has been refused the Athletic Association this year, and in consequence there will be no field-meeting. We can sum up thus shortly an entire host of grievances with which the Association may well feel itself inflicted. The contests that have just been ended in the Gymnasium have been unusually successful. The entries were more numerous than last year; the treasury is in a flourishing condition. Altogether, the interest shown in these sports had promised an increase of work and training for the field-meeting, and it can hardly be doubted that, had such a meeting taken place...