Word: marker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...persons more proficient than himself, and it places no mark of evil on the teacher that he be dubbed "professional" Englishmen have not suffered from their contact with professionals, without whom no cricket club of any importance in England exists. There is no tennis court without its professional "marker" in England or any other country, and that in a game distinctly less savoring of "professionalism" than any other sport in the world. Throughout athletics and pastimes trained guides are everywhere deemed necessities for the beginner, from countries across the ocean right to Harvard's doors. Is it peculiar...
...book which one instructor would rank eighty-six and another eighty four, under the old per cent. system. Under the new class system the one would rank it "excellent," the other only "good." Under the old system the range between the possible marks, arising from the mood of the marker or from a difference in markers would be but trifling, but under the new the book might be ranked either in the same class with those nearly perfect, or with those only mediocre...
...this were realized in fact, then students at Harvard would be likely to select those courses which would give them the most benefit. But it is not realized; every course has its reputation as "stiff" or as "soft," and every instructor has his reputation as a strict or easy marker. The student may have to decide between two courses with full knowledge that to gain the mark he aims at (be it 50, 70, or 90 per. cent.) will acquire two or three times as much work in one course as in the other, and this not depending...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON. -I should like to inquire about what may be called the constitutionality of an act of one of the instructors. The gentleman in question is a hard marker, and put on the examination paper questions purposely indefinite. Not satisfied with this, he felt called upon to warn not only those who did not pass the examination, but many who did. This fountain head of justice did not stop here. He sent official communications to the families of those students who had failed to attain a certain mark above 40 per cent. Is this not virtually raising...
...Seniors were scattered this "marker" before...