Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...scale of scholarship has been changed from the old percentage system to a system of five grades, A, B, C, D, E. Students who fail in a course will be assigned to E. Last year this grade was fixed at two-fifths of the maximum mark. Failure on the work of the year is changed from "failure to get one half the maximum mark," to those who "stand below grade E." As the regulation previously read, a student who failed on the year's work as a whole, although he passed on all his studies, could make up the deficiency...
...week off, it behooves us to make a few remarks about it. There are over forty names on the book so far. This number must be raised to fifty, before hopes of a dinner can be entertained. But let it be remembered that fifty is a minimum, not a maximum number. What class spirit does an attendance of fifty out of two hundred and fifty show? The number of those who attend ought to be at least one hundred! The success of the '87 dinner of last year will not allow that there should be any less interest...
...amount of sleep required by adults is 7 1-2 hours. Young people need more. All persons after severe mental or physical effort require extra sleep. Too much sleep is injurious, and must be gauged according to the individual. Ventilation is of vital importance in sleeping-rooms, as the maximum amount of carbonic dioxide that air can contain without fatal results is 1-1,000, and in one night we inhale about five cubic feet of this poisonous...
...been rumored that next year special students will be compelled to attain 75 per cent of the maximum mark in their elective studies, or sever their connection with the college...
...marks in Chemistry I are out. The maximum...