Word: mark
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...make; is more interesting for the spectators; is large enough for bicycle races; the back-stretch is just the length to run 100-yard dashes and hurdle races on, and should be made of extra width with this end in view. Stones should be sunk in the earth to mark the start and finish of the 100-yards; the 220-yards; 120-yards hurdles, with stones to mark the position of each hurdle, quarter-mile, etc. We would also suggest to the Executive Committee that this year they ring a bell in all the longer races when the men enter...
Juniors. - Carey: Speech of Mark Antony, Shakespeare. Clapp: Charles Sumner, Curtis. W. W. Coolidge: The Fall of Babylon, Da Ponte. Donaldson: The Last Soliloquy of Dr. Faustus, Marlowe. Evans: Rebuke to Cowardly Lords in 1852, Tennyson. Hale: Recreation, Helps. Hyde: The Gifted, Carlyle. Mercer: Speech of Henry V. before Agincourt, Shakespeare. Perkins: The Cloud, Shelley. Poor: The True Grandeur of Nations, Sumner. E. Robinson: The Rights of an English Subject, Erskine. Sargent: A Legend of Bragance, Adelaide Procter. Swayze: Boston and the Old South, Phillips. C. L. Wells: Immediate Emancipation, Brougham...
...Professor in this department complacently announces that it is his intention to reduce every mark obtained at that examination from ten to fifteen per cent. Without considering the question of whether the marks were too high it seems to me a most unwarranted proceeding to reduce them at this late date. The injustice of this measure is so evident, as was shown in the Advocate, that it is strange that the Faculty should allow it. If a Professor is to have the power of reducing marks six months after they have been announced, and when it is too late...
...held at Beacon Park, Friday, May 24, and proved the most successful that the Association has ever held. Only one event was struck off the programme from the lack of competitors, and the races followed each other without the painfully long delays which usually mark meetings of this kind. The first race, which was started promptly at 4 o'clock...
...will be seen in our "Correspondence," just complaint is once more made about the marks in English. It seems very hard that something cannot be done to insure fairer marking. The instructor seems deaf to all remonstrance, and after each examination warnings are so numerous that to receive one is the rule rather than the exception. It certainly seems a great pity that men should be afraid to take the English and German courses because of the apparent certainty of a condition, or, at best, of a very low mark. Where the system of taking off so much for each...