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With the Boylston and Lee Wade speaking competition once again getting under way, the inadequacy of these prizes in stimulating and rewarding a genuine interest in public speaking becomes painfully apparent. For a contest that requires a mere verbal recitation of long memory passages hardly fits into the present day...
The roll of Boylston prize winners contains the names of numerous famous graduates. George Santayana '86 performed the unparalleled feat of winning awards for the recitation of both Latin and Greek passages, giving a selection from Virgil's "Aeneid" in his Junior year and one from Homer's "IIiad" as...
Of the thousands who sat in Mark Hopkins' classes only a scant 250 lived to journey to Williamstown for his Centenary. Those oldsters remembered him as a great, gaunt, Lincolnesque figure striding under the Williamstown elms in frock coat and top hat, carrying a gold-headed cane. Or they...
Until Quincy took office degrees were awarded entirely on the basis of the faculty's general opinion of the candidate. The abuses and favoritism possible under this system led Quincy to require from the instructors an accurate mathematical record of every recitation. Each week he complied the marks personally, in...
This system was also probably the first step toward the introduction of the percentage method of marking into America. Under Quincy, the perfect recitation or examination scored eight points. The marks for all the recitations and examinations of a student were added together each year, and if at the end...