Word: grades
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...scale of scholarship has been changed from the old percentage system to a system of five grades, A, B, C, D, E. Students who fail in a course will be assigned to E. Last year this grade was fixed at two-fifths of the maximum mark. Failure on the work of the year is changed from "failure to get one half the maximum mark," to those who "stand below grade E." As the regulation previously read, a student who failed on the year's work as a whole, although he passed on all his studies, could make up the deficiency...
...penalty for dishonesty in examination has been withdrawn from the rules, pending probably the invention of some more terrible scheme. Under the "Degree of Bachelor of Arts," rule 26 reads: "above group D." This is changed from "one half of the total maximum." In rule 27, grade A is substituted for 90 per cent...
...have a taste for the study may begin real work at once, while others, who have no special tastes, may take it to their advantage to see whether they will make Physics part of their system of education. Nearly all our other branches have courses of a similar grade, such as History I, Chemistry I, Political Economy I; and it must be gratifying to the members of the faculty, who are anxious to increase the importance of physics in our curriculum, to see with what promptness their efforts have been met by the elective-choosing student...
...Lafayette, five points are deducted from a student's grade if he is found guilty of profanity...
...keenly alive to gather anything which might be said concerning his particular specialty that he would inevitably learn all that was said, involuntarily as it were. These theses would, of course, be marked excellent, good, bad, etc., and not by percentages; thus doing away with all ranking, except by grades, which is one of the crying evils of the present system. It may be urged that if many men had the same topic to write upon, as would necessarily happen, they would get some one else to write for them; but this is really a superficial objection, for such...