Word: graded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unnecessary. - (a) Highest education already accessible to women: C. W. Eliot, Annual Report, Jan. 1895. - (1) Radcliffe College supplies it to undergraduates. - (x) Instruction of same grade as at Harvard. - (y) Given by Harvard teachers. - (2) Harvard supplies it to graduates. - (x) Graduate courses open to Radcliffe. - (b) This plan is practicable and efficient. - (1) Objections to co-education eliminated. - (2) It has been adopted successfully elsewhere. - (v) Newnham College, at Cambridge, Eng. (w) Giston College, Oxford. - (x) Barnard College, Columbia. - (y) Western Reserve University...
...best, any system of graded marking is likely to prove not wholly satisfactory. On the border line between two grades there must always be a number of men whose proper rank it is extremely difficult to determine. Even assuming, what it would be unwise to assert, that examinations are absolutely reliable tests of a student's attainment, there would still be the danger of his suffering from some unintentional injustice in the marking; and upon a doubtful decision of the mark in a single course, may hinge the really important question as to the grade of the final degree...
Obviously a misleading estimate is more to be feared where the marker must decide between many grades of narrow compass, than where he decides between few grades of broad compass. A three-grade system, for instance, would do away with the difficult distinctions between A and B and between C and D. When first adopted, it would of course be some what difficult of adjustment to the present conditions which determine the award of degrees with distinction; but in operation it would more than repay for any temporary disturbance it might cause...
...Yale Record has started a series of baseball games between the men receiving the different degrees of scholarship appointments in '96. The first game was played Thursday between the Philosophicals and the Second Colloquies (lowest grade), and was won by the latter after quite an interesting and close struggle; score 12 to 11. The men who received no appointments have organized a "Dis-Appointment" team, which will play the winner of the inter-appointment series. The high-stand society of Phi Beta Kappa is arranging a baseball game with the similar society of Sigma Xi, in Sheff., and has also...
...large towns may obtain the best school education for their children, the parents in the smaller towns must be content with a secondary education. He stated that there were two feasible remedies for this objection: first, every parent or legal guardian should have a right to claim a first grade high school for their children; second, let there be but one statutory high school, with certain fixed standards, and let every town in the state be required to furnish the minimum elements of this high school...