Word: grades
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Henry Ward Beecher's average grade at Amherst was but 57 on a scale of 100. "Lives of great men all remind...
...elective have failed to complete the paper in the time prescribed. Another point to be considered is the effect such an examination has upon a man of nervous temperament, Few can have any conception of the strain upon a man so constituted who is endeavoring to reach a high grade upon the rank list, and yet sees the minutes hurrying by without bringing a commensurate amount of reduction in the unanswered portion of the paper before him. Why it should be that instructors' wish a hastily written and necessarily inaccurate list of answers to a need-lessly long list...
...this, the practical aims of the enterprise are more than fulfilled. The pupils who come to us simply from a love of study find what they seek, while such of our graduates as intend to teach readily obtain places in the best schools, and teachers of an older grade, who often join our classes for special studies, are cheered and encouraged by the new opportunities offered them...
...valedictory at Rutgers is a rhetorical honor at present, but by a recent decision of the Faculty, beginning with the class of '87, it will be awarded as the first honor in general grade...
...more surprised at this report since it seems to us that the most casual examination of facts will show that the instruction is both "systematic and progressive." For the past few years the work in written English, both prescribed and elective, has been of a constantly higher grade, and the increasing interest of the students in this work is strong evidence that the instruction has been successful. While we are by no means certain that at to prescribe class themes is the best way to teach men to write, we believe that the present instructors are getting the best result...