Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action, action, action." At the risk of referring to a prickly "chestnut," we would ask the faculty to turn with new year's vim to the marking system. Toleration of this evil has been their policy too long. Let 1886 see some improvement in Harvard's back-woods musty method of grading students. For the students at large we would offer as a motto for the new year, let it be marked by greater earnestness in the departments of athletics, scholarships and manly work...
...system works admirably among our Swedish brothers, and it would seem to recommend itself to favor among students in American universities. Nothing can be more pleasant than acquaintance with men from one's own state or city, and frequently the acquaintance would never be made unless by some such method as this...
...represent what it really ignores. Now the character of individual work at Harvard varies with every man, and is resolvable only into the nature of the several courses he pursues. We must, therefore, lay down as a general rule for every examination, that it shall represent, in its method and character, the nature of the subject on which it is held. Then the examination will be a true test, and its results will constitute the proper basis for the university's certificates. No matter what combination of courses a student pursues, he will be credited with just the kind...
...method of determining the vibrations of tuning forks will be named after its inventor, the "Pulsford" method...
...Pulsford, '88, while working in the Jefferson Laboratory last week, discovered a new method of determining the relative time of vibration of two tuning forks. The method is so simple, and so superior to all others now known, that it will hence forth be adopted in all Physics courses in Harvard, and probably in most of the other American colleges...