Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Marks on a scale of five are assigned on daily recitations and examinations. Different professors have different estimates of the comparative values of these marks - one considering recitation and examination marks of equal value, and another counting examination marks of less value than recitation marks, etc. For commencement speakers ten "honor-girls" are chosen, on the basis of "general scholarship, literary ability and good conduct throughout the college course...
...fashion. On one occasion a professor, noticing that certain members of his class were inattentive during the lecture, suddenly arrested his flow of oratory, and addressing one of the students, said, "Pray, Mr. Johnson, what is your opinion of the position of the animals just described, in the created scale?" "Mr. Johnson" was forced to say that "really he had no views whatever on the subject." Whereupon the professor, turning to a second unattentive student - who had evidently not caught "Mr. Johnson's" reply or its purport - said, "Mr. Smith, what is your opinion of the position of these animals...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : With what class does the change in regard to the calculation of the general scale go into the effect...
...view of these facts the change in the calculation of the general scale will meet with the approval of most students, and will offer additional encouragement to make the most of the "elective" years...
Hitherto in the calculation of the general scale of marks by the faculty for the four years each year has had more weight than the following year, i. e., the freshman year has counted more than the sophomore year, the sophmore more than the junior, and so on. Hereafter each year's work will have equal value in the calculation of the general scale...