Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...senior who has laid the foundation for a commencement part on the ground of honorable mention, coupled with the required per cent on the general scale, and who desires to write a part, may confer with Prof. A. S. Hill today from 3 to 4.30, Sever...
...same type. The college curriculum centered on the classics and the mathematics, with marked attention to that type of mental and moral philosophy most in favor with the clerical class. Science was taught chiefly from text-books, with history, modern languages, and English literian in a rapidly diminishing scale. These institutions were all under the influence of the different religious denominations, and their presidents adn professors were largely drawn from the clergy. The higher education was only for men, there being no schools for girls in the country where a thorough college course could be obtained. Indeed, neither the capacity...
...opinion that we are. Doubtless other professors can be found who will not agree with his views. According to the former view, the present standard of marking has by slow abuse gradually become so inflated that now it is quite impossible to give positive marks on a just scale, which shall without unfairness indicate the exact standing of any student. Therefore it has become necessary in order that the marks in any one course may not be out of proportion to the standard of marking employed in other courses for the instructor in that course, either to employ an artificial...
...steadily growing. Moreover, it is our opinion that the present form of the marking system in use at Harvard is the very worst form that is anywhere in use. The subdivision of marks and impracticable distinctions employed at Harvard in many cases, are undeniably evil in their effect. The scale of 10 in use at many colleges or even of 5 in use at Amherst we believe is far preferable. The system is a relic of the educational methods formerly in vogue at this as well as all other colleges, but now with us in all other departments superseded...
...mind, namely, that the society is, so to speak, a family institution, existing only for the benefit of those connected with the university, and with no other purpose. It has not for its object any injury to the trade of dealers in Cambridge or any lowering of their general scale of prices, but merely the providing of the members with needed goods at the lowest possible cost. This seems silf-evident, but it is not always borne in mind by members or by outsiders. We learn that the superintendent has sometimes been hampered in his efforts to obtain goods from...