Word: grades
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Grade A to include all having 90 per cent or over...
...book will be privately printed by Kilbourne Tompkins, of 79 Cedar Street, New York City, who has long been known as a publisher and printer of the highest grade of privately printed work, and the profits of the publication will go to the Harvard Adcocate. The edition will be limited with reference to the number of advance subscriptions, and each copy will be numbered. Copies in vellum and full calf will be made up to order. Prices will be $1.25 paper, and $1.50 cloth...
...DAILY CRIMSON: - In the new "Regulations of the Faculty of Harvard College," there is one rule that seems to be very unfair. I refer to the clause in section 27 relating to degrees cum laude, in which it is distinctly stated that no student who has ever fallen below grade C (I suppose the old 55 per cent.) shall be recommended for such a degree. I don't see how the new regulations can be regarded as an improvement on the old ones, when such a rule exists. In the old regulations, a man had simply to make a certain...
...plan proposed by the executive committee of the tennis association should meet with hearty support from the college. The permanent form which the trophy will take, will not only conduce to a permanently higher grade of play but ought to be a reason for liberal subscriptions. When men are willing to pay without hesitation for the current expenses of their respective teams, we should expect even more willingness in aid of such a perpetual emblem. Then too, no other sport has so many advantages as tennis. The hundreds of enthusiasts in the sport should make the collection...
...magna cum is now obtained by one "who has stood in grade A in one half of his college work and has not fallen below C in any study. This is changed from the old rule of "80 per cent. for the whole college course, or 85 per cent. for the last three years." The cum laude cannot be received by anyone who has fallen below grade C in any study...