Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President McCosh is endeavoring to elevate Princeton to the scale of a university. The excellent opportunities which are now afforded students of that college to pursue post-graduate courses, especially in philosophy, speak well for the undertaking. The progress which has been made in systems of study almost necessitate university methods. Any college, however prosperous, which neglects the tendencies to an enlarged scope of work and persists in purely college work, cannot reasonably hope for distinguished success or marked progress. The more collegiate study is elevated in its facilities and methods the broader will be the scholarship evolved. A university...
...system, why let them keep it up for those men who are trying for scholarships. But against this it would be urged that it is wrong to make an isolated class of the scholarship men. Surely there can be no objection to having these men included in the general scale of classification as well...
Henry Ward Beecher's average grade at Amherst was but 57 on a scale of 100. "Lives of great men all remind...
...tend to become useless, - in proportion to the advent of a more general character in our studies. Wherever, then, theses became useful, they would form a proper test; and I believe that they will become the chief means of examination for this very reason. But here, again, a coarse scale of marking is absolutely necessary; only an approximately definite mark could be given for the year's work, as any corrector of theses will certify. But the test will be thorough, and will exactly represent individual work in each case...
...that, whatever combination of studies we have to deal with, individual marks and averages must be on a coarse scale; the system I suggest will be less definite, but more correct and just, than the present system. And it will serve the purposes of the university in determining degrees and honors. But it will do away entirely with our system of class ranking, because no such individual comparison can be justly made under an elective system. Each man will simply get credit for what he has done, and he will therefore aim at true proficiency, in place of any false...