Word: marked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...instructors in announcing the event of an hour examination generally state that the result of the students' efforts will affect to some extent their marks on the course. If a man be desirous of a good mark, he must therefore "cram," and in doing this must neglect his other courses. It is no child's play to plough through all the notes he must have taken by this time of the year on his various studies. An occasional hour examination is possibly a good thing to beget interest, but that good is hardly great enough, to my mind, to countenance...
...hour examination is meant to stir the lazy, it falls short of its mark. Its occurrence may produce a temporary effect toward industry, but the lasting good that accrues is hard to see. Is it just that the difficult and vexatious work necessary to prepare for an hour examination should be inflicted upon the great number of conscientious students, simply for the good of a few who are either lazy or reckless? It seems that nearly all the instructors are coming to this opinion. Such a system seems to accord ill with the liberal spirit that generally pervades Harvard...
...These irritations, more disagreeable than their semi-annual prototypes, have grown in fashion during this year and now bid fair to become a characteristic of all the larger and many of the less numerous courses. These examinations are out of accord with the tendency of study at Harvard, and mark retrogression to the days of term examinations and required studies. Many lazy ones are caught in the trap, but we fail to see what good accrues to them by the operation, while for those who are working earnestly a deviation from good work to ill-advised "cramming" is the result...
LOST.-Yesterday, a Mark Twain notebook containing notes in N. H. 4 and Greek B. Please return...
TOURNAMENT COMMITTEE.LOST.-Taken by mistake from dressing room-dance at Longwood-Thursday evening, Dec. 8, hat marked Cooksey and Co., London; size 7 3-8. Finder can have his own hat, same mark, size 7 (bought in Montreal) by applying at 1 Beck Hall...