Word: marke
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This movement is inspired, if by nothing else, by a motive of self-protection on the part of men who will be dependent on the results of their graduate work in after life. For them the degrees in themselves are not necessarily a mark of distinction at present. That is to say, it does not follow nowadays, at because a man is an A. M. he has done a year of good work after graduation, or because he is a Ph. D. he has by two or three years of advanced study made any valuable contribution to his chosen branch...
Yesterday afternoon the Rev. P. S. Moxom of Springfield conducted the Vesper Service, taking as his texts part of the fourth chapter of St. Luke and of the sixth chapter of St. Mark, both telling of the return of Jesus to his home, Nazareth. He spoke in part as follows...
...believe that the privilege granted to University athletes of wearing the letter "H" on their uniforms should be more carefully guarded than it is at present, if it is to remain the mark of honor which it is intended to be. No team should be allowed to wear the "H" unless it has the standing in the University which firm establishment and general popularity alone can give it. Without any reflection upon other sports carried on more or less successfully at Harvard, we believe that the members of the football eleven, the crew, the baseball team, and the point winners...
...desire, nevertheless, to indicate two additional refutations to his general charge of severity; two so palpable that I had hoped he would not overlook them. First, that, however rigid or lax any system of marking may be, two different instructors can not, in the very nature of things, mark the same kind of work in the same way; we can not eliminate from them that excellent peculiarity called "the personal equation." Second, that the twelve o'clock section of English C (of which I am a member) is less in earnest than Professor Baker's sections; the reason being because...
...system of marking in English C is strict, I admit; but so is that of the other composition courses; so is that of the German and classical department. If the one course is subject to criticism on that score, so are most of the other collegiate courses. It can hardly be urged that the standard of English C should be more lax than that of the other prescribed courses just because English C is very distasteful to many of us. For an instructor to give men D who deserve E, is to attempt to right one wrong by doing another...