Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fulfilling the purposes of his residence at the University, and calls for inquiry, explanation, and such action as may be found fitted to the special circumstances, and that irregularity of attendance, unless accompanied by good scholarship, is to be treated and regarded in the same way. No scale of penalties is stated, and no precise line of absences or scholarship is given, the design of the rule being to deal with individuals and not with sharply defined classes, and to deal with them by such flexible methods as are necessary, in distinguishing between cases where the student proves his capacity...
...English Composition should be 85 per cent, while in every thing else it is 80. Reference to past rank-lists will show that the highest marks given in themes and in English 5 average fully five per cent below those given in other courses, so that, using the scale adopted in other courses, the actual requirement for Honorable Mention in English Composition is practically about ten per cent higher than in other studies. Perhaps it is considered that Honorable Mention in English Composition is not, on the 80 per cent basis, a sufficient title to a degree cum laude...
FROM the point of view of the Faculty, the new regulation which requires a student, "when making his choice, or at some time not later than November 1, to designate the courses for which he is to receive credit on the Annual Scale," becomes necessary mainly on account of the action of the students themselves. Extra hours have been taken until the custom has become an abuse, and this has produced confusion everywhere. Then it is thought best for a student to concentrate his mind on the same subjects during the academic year. All courses, including extras, in which...
...This is that hereafter men must definitively settle by November 1 what courses they intend to pursue as electives during the year. No extra hours beyond one (which is allowed to provide for the difficulty of choosing exactly twelve or exactly fourteen hours) will be counted on the general scale as hours of electives, unless they are put down on the list of electives, or unless notice of taking them regularly is given before the date mentioned. Extra hours may still count on the special scale of any study. It has been found necessary to make this restriction on account...
SAPLING. To-morrow night let's scale old Harvard Hall...