Word: mention
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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ESPECIALLY there seems to be no reason why the requirement for Honorable Mention in English Composition should be 85 per cent, while in every thing else it is 80. Reference to past rank-lists will show that the highest marks given in themes and in English 5 average fully five per cent below those given in other courses, so that, using the scale adopted in other courses, the actual requirement for Honorable Mention in English Composition is practically about ten per cent higher than in other studies. Perhaps it is considered that Honorable Mention in English Composition...
...worthy of the praise it has received, but a case has arisen which the "Rules and Regulations" evidently have omitted to provide for. As the rules now stand, a student who enters College Sophomore year, and does not take enough studies in any one branch to get honorable mention, may have an average of 84 1/2 per cent and yet receive only an ordinary degree; in fact, a poorer degree than the four-years student with 65 per cent and an honorable mention. To draw the line still more sharply, in the case supposed (and such a case has actually...
...that secret I never may mention...
...very favorable, and the water was far from smooth. Some defective points in the arrangements for the race are alluded to in the account which we publish elsewhere, and we might add that there were no tickets to the Union Boat House, which occasioned some dissatisfaction. We mention these matters that they may be rectified in the spring, for the race itself was so interesting that nothing better in the way of rowing could be desired...
...room in Sever, which is a great convenience, in avoiding the walk to the Museum, and the bad ventilation of the lecture-room there. The hour chosen, two o'clock on Wednesdays, is perhaps as good a one as the crowded Tabular View could afford. We are glad to mention also Dr. Sargent's informal lectures at the Gymnasium, on the use of apparatus...