Word: scale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...naivete of character which is so peculiarly Mozartian. It is scored for small orchestra, without clarinets and in some movements without flutes, yet with these simple means some very charming effects are produced. One notable instance occurs in the andante, where the horn has a few notes against a scale figure in the violins; another is a tutti in the second two of the minuet. The performance was a little rugged at times, perhaps owing to the presence of several new members among the violins. Rheinhold's prelude, minuet and fugue presented a very pleasing quality of light music...
Many suggestions have already been made, the most prevalent of which is a class system based upon general divisions as "fair," "good," "excellent," etc., in contra distinction to a percentage scale of numerical values...
...advocates of the so called class system would stop to think a moment, they must see that their theory is nothing but a percentage scale, graced with new titles, in which the discriminations are large units instead of small ones. Why do they stop with three or four divisions? Why not go a step further and make one division, viz: "passed"; or even still further and make no division at all? The fallacy of their argument lies in the fact that they simply change the robe of the evil instead of the evil itself. The burden of the examination still...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In the communication published a few days ago, "Inquirer" has apparently not understood the way in which the class system of marking would most naturally be applied. He seems to think that the instructor would first assign marks according to the percentage scale, and then reduce them to the terms of the class system. Now, in in fact, whatever reference there is to percentage is merely for the student's convenience in estimating the value of his mark. The instructor would naturally consider, not whether a book deserved eighty-four or eighty-six, but whether it ought...
Latest from '89: "Well, I don't care if I didn't get more than 4 on that paper; it was only marked on a scale...