Word: much
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small sales to those who wished to buy from the U. S. land not otherwise purchaseable. Thus the scrip was scattered over the U. S., gradually finding its way back to the General Land Office to be redeemed. Even today the General Land Office does not know exactly how much unredeemed Valentine scrip is still in circulation, though the amount is supposed to be small...
...asking how much stress should be laid on the final examination in computing the grades for Government I, Professor Holcombe, whose letter appears in an adjoining column, raises a question of fundamental importance for all elementary courses at Harvard. Grades in advanced courses may usually without misgivings be determined on the basis of one or two examinations and possible a thesis. But the problem is not so easily solved for such large elementary courses as Government I, History I, or English...
...Yale stroke, set at a much higher beat, makes little use of the long lay-back favored by the Harvard oarsmen, with the result that the Blue tipped oars, while at a higher clip, do not pull the length of water handled by the Crimson sweeps...
...each of its components. Unless the final grade is to be no more than a rough approximation of the true value of the work done in a course, a unit of measurement must be adopted and all letter grades recomputed in terms of that unit. For example, how much weight should be assigned to the final examination and to the weekly papers, respectively...
This fact is obvious to the large number of men who are taking the course now or who have taken it before, and is due to a system much more in keeping with secondary school education than with that given in college. The grading is so arranged that the numerical total in the weekly papers, the midyear and final examinations is ascertained, and the mark is given according to the total number of points. As a result there are always certain men who have been doing well, who would not even need to attend the examination in order to receive...