Word: referred
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...examination upon all the past work of the year. Now, clearly, any instructor has a perfect right to examine his section as he pleases, but the adoption of the disingenuous course of action we have described is as unfair to the popularity and good repute, which the instructor we refer to enjoys, as it is to those who have elected his interesting course...
...reason for this is easily understood. The fact that all the students are occupied in the same line of study gives them sympathetic views. Men are readier to converse on the subject of their studies when they are sure that every hearer will know precisely to what they refer, and what they mean...
...while such men enjoy to a certain extent the benefits of the society, they have contributed nothing to its maintenance. There are, moreover, other good results flowing from the society which it would hardly be possible to express in figures, and which will extend beyond our college life. We refer to the habit of cash payment which, it is to be hoped, students, having learnt at college, will carry with them through life...
...more the train the less the brain,' as a young lady aptly remarked last Tuesday evening," says the Yale Courant. This is not supposed to refer to athletics at Yale...
...these periods from the nature of the case, there are certain abuses which can be to a great extent remedied. One of these abuses is the uncertainty one always feels after having completed his papers as to how near the truth he approximated in his answers. We do not refer to the custom some instructors have of not giving marks, as this needs no comment. But a mark alone is always unsatisfactory enough if the man does not know in what his book is weak. The only way to have examinations do any good besides fixing, though with a delightful...