Word: grades
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...themselves educated to a degree of proficiency beyond which further study were superfluous. In China there is no fixed time for graduating, no limit to one's collegiate course, except he live beyond the age allotted the human race. If a student graduate from any college of a certain grade in ten years, he is considered a prodigy. We have frequently seen in China men of fifty years of age, the fathers of families, still attending college, diligently seeking to obtain their first degree. But the gaining of the first degree does not complete a Chinaman's education; far from...
...that the real object of education in American colleges should be not to elevate the reputation of this or that college or faculty, nor to train a few exceptional intellects among pupils, nor even for a time to foster high scholarship, but to develop the capabilities of every grade of students, to encourage, not stamp upon, the dull, stimulate the idle, fit even the most stupid for the humble place that he will hold. The faculty and college that soonest recognize this fact and act upon it will not only command the gratitude of parents but will do the best...
...editors of the Yale College Literary Magazine, an enterprising youth from Sioux City Iowa, has been caught publishing one of Tom Moore's poems over his own signature and has resigned his position, while the upper grade societies to which he belonged are nearly crazy with excitement...
...most needed." Finally he comes to the conclusion that it is becoming the fashion to endow the student instead of the professor, and that these scholarships, memberships, etc., instead of aiding meritorious students, offers to promising students an opportunity to coach the wealthy men, and thus the grade of scholarship is raised...
AMHERST.Amherst professors mark on the scale of five and make four grades, which appear on the diploma and certify to the actual average work the student has accomplished. The lowest grade corresponds to two, on the scale of five. A mark of three gives one cum laude; four, magna cum laude, and five, summa cum laude. The aim of this marking system is to make the nominal mark correspond to the actual work done. The six or eight in the class who attain the highest average ranks appear on the commencement stage, thus general ability is encouraged rather than proficiency...