Word: might
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Last year, for example, the Ecole Politique of Paris, had one of its circulars posted for some months in the entry of University Hall; and the circular undoubtedly had some influence upon the four or five Harvard men who are at present studying in that school. Our own authorities might find a similar step profitable. The reasons which take Americans abroad to study ought also to apply to Canadians with reference to this country...
...length varying, of course, inversely with the number required. The subjects could easily be made so comprehensive as to necessitate a fair knowledge of the ground covered by the course, and even if they were only special topics, the student would be so keenly alive to gather anything which might be said concerning his particular specialty that he would inevitably learn all that was said, involuntarily as it were. These theses would, of course, be marked excellent, good, bad, etc., and not by percentages; thus doing away with all ranking, except by grades, which is one of the crying evils...
...predict that Sever 11 will find itself more than ever unsuited to be the place of a popular course of lectures. The first two speakers are men of such note that we wonder that it was not announced that they would speak in Sanders, where their large audiences might be at least comfortably seated...
...would seem as though difficulty must arise in ranking justly those whose marks are near the line which separates two classes. One instructor might rank them in one class, another in another...
...system. Under the new class system the one would rank it "excellent," the other only "good." Under the old system the range between the possible marks, arising from the mood of the marker or from a difference in markers would be but trifling, but under the new the book might be ranked either in the same class with those nearly perfect, or with those only mediocre...