Word: profs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...five or ten, or a 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...
...meeting last night was a small one, owing to the state of the weather. It was called to order by President Adams at 7.30, who read Prof. White's letter. The following gentlemen were then elected to the conference committee: Messrs. E. R. Thayer, Pierce, Garrison and Lund. Mr. Adams also read a letter from the manager of the crew stating that about half the necessary amount for sustaining it has been raised, and that a second subscription will be taken at once. The meeting then adjourned...
...Prof. Dunbar will resume lecturing in all his courses this week...
...observatory at Yale College has been without a director since Prof. Newton resigned that office last...
About thirty men attended the meeting in Boylston Hall which Mr. Bradford called to order at 7.30. A letter was read from Prof. Palmer notifying the committee that the first meeting of the conference will be held on Thursday, Feb. 19, at 4 P. M., in Sever 21. The subject for discussion will be, "The usefulness of such conferences in the future and the best means of choosing the student delegates." The meeting then proceeded to elect four delegates, and the following men received the highest number of votes and were declared the choice of the class: Carpenter, Goodale...