Word: rulings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...member was $875: for one year, $150. The average price paid for board was $4 a week. The average highest price paid was $5.25; average lowest, $3.75. One man boarded himself at $1, one at $2, several as low as $4. The highest price paid was $7. As a rule the young men who expended the most money in college have the least to show in literary and scientific attainments...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - In the new "Regulations of the Faculty of Harvard College," there is one rule that seems to be very unfair. I refer to the clause in section 27 relating to degrees cum laude, in which it is distinctly stated that no student who has ever fallen below grade C (I suppose the old 55 per cent.) shall be recommended for such a degree. I don't see how the new regulations can be regarded as an improvement on the old ones, when such a rule exists. In the old regulations, a man had simply to make...
...list we find changed. Absences are no longer returned to the Dean, but to the secretary, who enters them on each student's record. Petitions to the faculty may now be handed in up to 10 o'clock on the day of the faculty meeting. The new Rule (5) with regard to the time of changing electives, limiting such changes to Nov. 1 and March 1, are well known already. Rule 7 and 8 is new. Instructors are to report to the Dean from time to time the names of students who have failed to satisfy them in the performance...
...penalty for dishonesty in examination has been withdrawn from the rules, pending probably the invention of some more terrible scheme. Under the "Degree of Bachelor of Arts," rule 26 reads: "above group D." This is changed from "one half of the total maximum." In rule 27, grade A is substituted for 90 per cent...
...magna cum is now obtained by one "who has stood in grade A in one half of his college work and has not fallen below C in any study. This is changed from the old rule of "80 per cent. for the whole college course, or 85 per cent. for the last three years." The cum laude cannot be received by anyone who has fallen below grade C in any study...