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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that many freshmen fail to make use of their library privileges, simply through a reluctance to make the enquiries necessary to find out the system on which books are to be drawn. After one has thoroughly learned the steps which must be taken to secure books, he is still often hampered by a certain unfamiliarity with the card catalogue system. Now, however, that a lecture is to be given with the sole intention of clearing away all real or imaginary difficulties in the way of making the most profitable use of the volumes in Gore Hall, no excuse whatever will...
...certain percentage be added to each mark has considerable weight. There can be no doubt that the greatest evil of the marking system is that no unity or equality of standards, seems to be attained by the body of instructors. Fifty per cent. with Prof. A may often be set against seventy or seventy-five per cent. with Prof. B; in courses which require very nearly the same amount of work and brains, the marks often show an appalling difference. An interesting comparison has been made between the marks of two courses, which had been elected almost without exceptions...
...accomplished. In order to avoid undue haste in the choice of delegates, it might be well to require their election by ballot. Another regulation might be that one, but only one, delegate shall be chosen who is especially interested in athletics, thus avoiding the danger, which is often experienced in colleges, of the athletic element overriding the general interests of the students. They should be elected at the first class meeting, and should serve during the year...
...work in the preparatory courses was not sufficient to enable a man to write a critical essay in a language in writing, in which he had had so little practice. Inasmuch as the other courses are taken by freshmen, we do not have the complaint which we so often hear in regard to these three courses. But if German is to be taught with the same degree of success with which other languages are taught at Harvard, there must be some one man who will take upon himself the responsibility of organizing this department, in other words, we must have...
...Harvard feel in applying the method of investigation is the lack of preparation of the students when entering college. Our preparatory schools aim not to fit students for study at a University, but merely to enable them to pass the entrance examinations. Consequently the work at Harvard is often more elementary than the instructors would desire...