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Increased inheritance taxes, beginning at 2% on inheritances in excess of $50,000 and grading up to 50% on inheritances greater than $20,000,000 (state inheritance taxes to be deducted against the Federal tax.)
As a result of Professo Kirsopp Lake's recent experiment in allowing his students in English 35a a course in the Old Testament, to choose between two methods of grading, 56 men out of the 168 enrolled, decided to be graded on the final examination mark only, according to statistics...
The system is an innovation in the mechanics of grading and was inaugurated by Professor Lake in an attempt to obtain greater flexibility and to allow for the differences in methods of study. Professor Lake's theory was that men with scholastic ability would do better to choose the first...
A novel experiment in grading will be tried this year by Professor Kirsopp Lake, in English 35a, a half course in the Old Testament. At the first meeting of his class yesterday he announced that, since he had found differences of opinion as to how much the final examination should...
Professor Lake's experiment in allowing his students in English 35a to choose between two systems of grading is a step towards the millenium when the necessary evil of marking will be entirely done away with. At best marks are a mechanical method of recording knowledge, and at worst they...