Word: grade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college year with E. P. Nelson 5E.S. at president. The fraternity was founded in 1885 at Lehigh University to "foster a spirit of liberal culture in the Engineering Schools of America and to mark in a fitting manner those who have conferred honors upon their college by a high grade of scholarship as undergraduates or by other attainments as alumni...
...novel experiment in grading will be tried this year by Professor Kirsopp Lake, in English 35a, a half course in the Old Testament. At the first meeting of his class yesterday he announced that, since he had found differences of opinion as to how much the final examination should count towards the grade for the course, he would adopt two systems of marking. In one, the final examination alone will determine the grade, and in the other the hour examination and the occasional quizzes will count heavily in the final reckoning. At the beginning of the course each student will...
...promised to make the final examination mark the course mark. For the student who revels in exactitudes and dreams of A's and for the student who enters extra curriculum activities and hopes for C's, Professor Lake has promised to include all quizz marks and the hour examination grade in the final reckoning. The choice lies entirely with the individual, but the decision must, of course, be made at the beginning of the year. It will be interesting to see just how many take the opportunity of broadening their general knowledge--or, perhaps, of postponing their labors until after...
Speaking as the official representative of University Hall, Assistant Dean Bacon welcomed the Freshmen. He then described the new Freshman scholastic ruling, requiring a grade of three C's and a D for a minimum of four courses, initiated this year instead of the old standard of two C's and a D for a minimum of five courses...
...Class of 1924 qualified the largest number of men for Group 1, 15 of this year's Seniors attaining the necessary grade. Twelve 1925 men, 2 out of course students and 11 of last year's Freshmen also qualified for highest distinction. Two hundred and eight were not promoted and so were not listed in the Rank List, and 123 left college before the end of the year...