Word: mark
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THAT the authors of the neat pamphlet now before us should have refrained from making public their names certainly shows commendable modesty. Nevertheless we cannot help regretting that writers who are evidently destined to make their mark in the field of literature should have felt this hesitation. The mantle of the Rev. Edwin Abbott - name dear to Sophomores - has certainly fallen upon these gentlemen; its voluminous folds, however, do not entirely conceal them. Perhaps they anticipated...
...this time last year there was a complaint made that one of the instructors in History had refused to tell the men in his elective their marks on the semi-annual examination. We should refrain from repeating the complaint if we had not understood from various quarters that the custom was increasing. It is difficult to discover the especial object in withholding these marks. If a student has not succeeded in passing a creditable examination, it is evidently of the utmost importance that he should know it, in order that he may bring up his average by closer application...
...long as the marking-system exists, so long complaints will be made after every examination, but there is one flagrant case of injustice which should not be passed over in silence. Those who elect a course in French do not expect in a year to learn to write French as well as the Parisians, nor are they told in the elective pamphlet that the examination is to be partly or wholly in French. But when we ask for our marks, what is the answer? "You have a very low per cent, and I feel that you ought to have more...
...plan proposed by the Committee on Honors and Honorable Mention appears to be not only a great improvement upon the present scheme, but a necessary consequence of the elective system. So long as a prescribed curriculum throughout the college course was adhered to, an average mark may have been regarded as some evidence of conscientious work, more or less reliable as a criterion of scholarship. But under the elective system, which encourages special studies in the course marked out by the student for his career in life, he should receive from the college a proper recognition of his actual standing...
Ranking upon an average is particularly liable to be unjust in a mixed system, partly prescribed and partly elective. Greek may be studied only because it is required for the entrance examination and during the Freshman year. The mark of the student who is indifferent to this study drags down his average, and as he intends to drop Greek as soon as possible, a greater proficiency would be of no advantage, so soon is the whole to be neglected and forgotten...