Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...giving their courses, because the mistakes that are sometimes made usually themselves point the way to speedy relief. But when the same complaint is heard year after year against the same group of courses we feel justified in taking account of it. The conditions with which we find fault prevail in the marking system used in two or three courses in elementary engineering, taken by a large number of men, in which mechanical drawing forms the principal part of the work. Instead of marking the drawings by some common standard intelligible to the students, the instructors in these courses indicate...