Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well as each book as a whole. The results were carefully tabulated and compared., and a summary of conclusions and recommendations published in volume three of the "Harvard Studies in Education." As revealed by that study, the investigators concluded that college marking is at best far too much a matter of chance, and that every care is needed to make it accurate. It showed, however, it is the difference in examiners which makes the attainment of academic credit a gamble for the student...
...seems to be getting everybody a lot of fun. The day that the News doesn't run a Communication about it is a rainy day indeed, and it is hard to find a time at the Elizabethan Club when somebody isn't saying just what he thinks on the matter...
...must say people are a little slow if they are just discovering that the House Plan is really a definite matter after all. Last Spring the News gave out a great deal of information about the Plan as it was then being formulated, but nobody except the News and the Inquisitor had anything to say, except that maybe the Administration knew what it was about. Naturally, the News supported the Plan, because it always tries to ferret out and represent "undergraduate opinion...
...very long ago a friend of mine- one of that fine, hearty type who believes in being a Yale man and shaming the devil-told me his troubles. He was far from satisfied with the way things were going presently at New Haven, or, for that matter, at any of the American colleges. We were all in a bad way. He had no particular criticism to make of the teaching; this did not greatly interest him. 'But undergraduates,' he held-and on this point he was positive-'are not the men they used...
Unless this attitude changes, Princeton will be faced with the alternatives of taking beatings as a matter of course, or of adopting much softer schedules. We can envisage neither situation with equanimity. It is axiomatic that Princeton has been most successful when her teams have been facing the biggest odds; this has been due in large measure to the enthusiastic co-operation of the entire University. Last year there was much talk on the Campus about making the schedule harder. Well, Amherst and Brown were no set-ups, and the next five will all be bigger and tougher. Bill Roper...