Word: general
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...following is a general estimate of the necessary expenses of those attending the meeting of the American Institute of Instruction, to be held July 9, 10, 11, 12, at the White Mountains...
...COMMUNICATION in the Correspondence column expresses the feeling, very general in college, against the proposed reduction of the marks given for the anticipatory examination in Sophomore Rhetoric, and against the precedent established by such action, - a feeling which is perfectly well grounded. That great injustice will be done by such reduction seems to be evident to every one; for the fact, which is doubtful, that the marks were too high, is no excuse for lowering these marks eight months after they were given. One of the chief merits of anticipatory examinations is, that the student is at liberty either...
...course will give an uncalled-for publicity to the names, and the fact that it will gratify the curiosity of a few is no reason for adopting it. The matter is a delicate one, and suggests the need of rewards for scholarship itself, in addition to the present general provision for pecuniary aid. If the Faculty persist in the course upon which they have determined, we may expect to find the names of those who hold "scholarships" in the next Harvard Index...
THIS complaint is not of the marking system in general, only of the particular phase of it that appears in German 7. We do not complain that it is carelessly executed; on the contrary, the instructor takes more pains to examine the books carefully and justly, according to his light, than can be demanded of any one. It is the system that is wrong, and radically...
...real acquirements; but so long as he is required, in order to test the faithful performance of duty, to submit to examinations, upon the result of which college rank is made to depend, such examinations should be fair and impartial, and they should be based upon sound, well-regulated general principles, rather than the arbitrary and fanciful theories of each individual instructor...