Word: graded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...examination in French or German at the beginning of the Junior year--that is, before they really go on probation. And, furthermore, that a written examination shall be optional subsequently so long as the student is on probation. The passage set for the examination shall be of the same grade of difficulty as the oral, but different from it in consisting of an extensive, well-rounded chapter or episode, which need not be translated with verbal accuracy, but only paraphrased and rendered into equivalent English sense...
...Boston University School of Theology will be admitted to courses in the Harvard Divinity School and in the Graduate School. The arrangement, which will be tried for two years, provides that graduate students and Seniors in the Boston University School of Theology who have attained an average grade of 85 per cent. may register in the Harvard Divinity School and take without charge a maximum of two Harvard courses as part of their year's work in the Boston University School of Theology. This arrangement, while differing in its details from the affiliation of Andover Theological Seminary with Harvard...
Every year after the examination period there are some men who feel moved to grade their own work. Not satisfied that the instructor can or does mark correctly, they besiege him to reconsider and revise, and see if there is not a blunder somewhere. Fortunately, or otherwise, they are all of one genus: no one was ever heard who pleaded for a lower mark. One and all clamor for a "raise...
...second, these men do what they would not tolerate for an instant in their "outside" activities. They assume their grade is merely a provisional one which can be raised by a little personal persuasion. Tacitly, they accuse the marker of discrimination against them, in the very breath in which they ask for a personal favor. And yet these men would be the last to admit or desire "pull" in their other work. Mark-pulling is a little more inexcusable than any other kind...
While singing has not yet attained the grade of a major sport, the University Glee Club in its contest tonight merits the interest and support of all Harvard men. The CRIMSON extends its best wishes to the club for a repetition of last year's victory...