Word: grades
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Articles of Agreement establish four grades of offenses; (1), deliberate falsehood; (2), grave misdemeanors; (3), major offenses; (4), minor offenses; and they also provide a penalty or penalties, for each grade...
...with reasonable promptness, obtaining their information by whatever honorable means may appear most desirable. They may consult with the president, but he cannot control their action. Having formed an opinion, they decide upon a verdict of fact, which must be agreed to by a majority, and which state the grade of the offense, together with such aggravating or extenuating circumstances as have been allowed to qualify this verdict...
...duty of the president to pass sentence according to the verdict, but, if the student can show good cause, he may lower the grade of the offense or remit the penalty entirely. "But," though the president has this pardoning power, "he cannot in any case impose a heavier penalty than that of the grade fixed by the jury...
...there that this was thought to be the only way by which the students could be represented. The President of the college officiates as judge at the trials, and passes sentence on the culprit after the jury have rendered a verdict as to his guilt, and as to the grade-of which four are named in the articles of agreement-to which in their opinion the offense belongs. A certain penalty is attached to each grade; and the President must pass sentence as determined by the grade in which the jury have placed the offense. unless there be such mitigating...
...this of examinations, how they are to be conducted and how far they are to be taken as a test. That the present system, which carries with it all the evils of the marking system, is unfair, is almost universally acknowledged; but that something is needed whereby to grade the classes and sections of classes, some measure or test of knowledge, is as universally agreed upon. Instructors say that they cannot do away with the present system of examinations and marking, until there is found some system, or some reform of the old system, which will be better and more...