Word: marking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...these Phillips Exeter Academy contributed 620, Boston Latin School 527, J. P. Hopkinson's School 331, Cambridge Latin School 290, Roxbury Latin School 270, Phillips Andover Academy 223, and St. Paul's School 169. The schools next in order are: Newton High School 117, Somerville High School 99, St. Mark's School 77, Chauncey Hall 52, and Groton School 47 since...
...existence as life itself. Corneille put Don Rodrique face to face with fate and then left him to conquer or perish as might be. It is the wonderful consistency with which the character of the Cid is developed in relation to the other personages in the play which mark the genius of Corneille...
...statistics which Dr. Sargent has furnished to this year's Index seem fairly to prove that an increasing interest in physical culture has had its effect in raising the average of strength and development among students. Scores of men now reach the mark in the tests which a dozen years ago was only attained by a very few. Of course there are many more men taking these tests than formerly; perhaps there is more of tendency to train regularly to make records. It is only right, however, to attribute the greater part of the improvement in the records...
...proposed. It seems to us that it would be, not an ideal system, but certainly an improvement over the present system, if scholarships were distributed as follows: Let men show that they need money, and how much money they need; let a standard rank be fixed, - for example, no mark to be less than B; let then the scholarships be distributed to all men who attain this rank and need money, in proportion to their needs...
...December number of the Graduates' Magazine contains some very pointed remarks on the absence about the college of any memorial tablets to mark places of historic interest. As the writer says, "Certainly much interest and charm, and much stimulus to high thought and noble life, are lost to the students at Harvard who never wake to the fact that it is their privilege to pass three or four years amid scenes dignified by the recollections of great...