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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...must also add that only one complaint was put in the Complaint box in four weeks, and that was to the effect that only four chairs were left in the gallery. I am very happy to say that the other fourteen were needed in the Hall...
...advice of a prominent member of the faculty in the Greek department. The gentleman informed me that an informal vote on the question stood 30 to 2, and that the final vote was postponed as a matter of form to the next meeting, and urged me to say that the faculty had already decided the matter. I never have, and never shall, " print news on insufficient information in a great city daily...
...think that our correspondent of yesterday is quite right in his complaint against the low range of marks adopted in a certain German course. The suggestion that a fixed amount, say 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...
...there not such a thing as running it too cheaply? It seems to us that in avoiding one extreme the management has fallen into the other. The board, especially the lunches, is altogether too poor. We believe we speak for the great majority of the boarders when we say that an advance in the price of board of from twenty-five to fifty cents would be gladly welcomed, if accompanied by an improvement in the lunchee, and by an improvement, we mean a perceptible improvement, not old things in the disguise of new names...
...would say, for the benefit of our correspondent yesterday, who felt compelled to protest against a statement made in our recent article on "Athletics at Athens," that reliance cannot always be placed on the athletic records of Herodotus. We are unable, at present, to deny the accuracy of the particular record, but, being unable to find it credited in the "Clipper Almanac," we are not disposed to insist upon its acceptance...