Word: grades
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman examinations, beginning on the 26th of this month, occur in the following order: Monday, March 25, Latin; Tuesday, Greek; Thursday, French and German; Friday, one-hour examination in Physics; Saturday, Trigonometry; Tuesday, April 4, Classical Literature. The examination in German is not required from those who received a grade of seventy-five per cent. on last term's work...
...which time we are liable to be informed that the book we wish is "out." I do not suggest that the books be reserved - not at all; only let them be accessible, just as the "new books" are. If more English books of the first grade were within easy reach at all times, the students would be much more familiar with standard English and American authors than at present...
...remains to state that if a student accumulates his quota of twenty absences, a notice is sent to his parents, and he is warned. If he receives thirty he is suspended from college for two or four weeks. If he received over twenty the whole number "count off his grade" - two-tenths for each absence. All these rules are enforced with some rigor. Is it necessary to add how this system is viewed by the students...
...retirement of Rear-Admirals Balch and Bryson, Commander Charles H. Baldwin is promoted to the grade of rear-admiral...
...incurable cause of illsuccess. Others, though less hostile, consider the university career "no good," except to give manners, and hold that the money and time, though not exactly wasted, are expended to secure a problematical gain, in the way not so much of success or of happiness, as of grade. These men are seldom thoroughly cultivated, but greatly exaggerate the effect of university culture upon grade, perhaps of all errors about the system the one most generally prevalent. Still others maintain strongly and definitely that the higher education always "pays;" that no matter what a man's occupation...