Word: progress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...less advanced student sometimes finds himself at a disadvantage. For several years the College Rank List has printed the names of undergraduates only. Yet, when a man is so far advanced as to take courses of a "graduate" nature, he must expect to be measured by standards not of progress, but of attainment; for real scholarship means knowledge and the power to use knowledge. It would be as reasonable to award an A to a man who has merely made progress in a course as it would to award an "H" to a football player who is promising...
...communication printed in another column, fault is found with a system of grading graduates and undergraduates by different standards, as was suggested in the CRIMSON last Thursday. The crux of the matter lies in the question of whether marking shall be done upon attainment or progress. To the CRIMSON the latter alternative seems the more just, in that the preliminary knowledge of a graduate is always greater than that of the younger members of a course in the group "For Undergraduates and Graduates...
...print for the same course an undergraduate's A without differentiating it from the B of a graduate whose knowledge may be far broader and more profound. It would be an easy matter to distinguish these two classes of marks, and base the grades upon a standard of progress instead of absolute attainment...
...Progress of Yale Eight...
Though the bill in progress through Congress makes possible the construction of the drawless bridge to the Stadium, its details have been objected to by a number of prominent alumni, who went to Washington yesterday to consider the measure. In case of a disagreement the whole matter may be dropped until the next session of Congress...