Word: student
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Register in past years has also been printed at the expense of the Budget, but in 1929 the Council voted to discontinue its publication. The lack of support given it by the Student Body seemed to indicate that it was of slight value...
This year the Council has, at the suggestion of the Phillips Brooks House formed an advisory committee composed of the treasurer of the Student Budget, his assistant and the officers of the P. B. H., to investigate the merits of the charities applying for money...
Colleges, Professor Rogers said, "worshipped marks", but he added that an A.B. degree merely indicated that the student had agreed with his professors during his four years at school, Grades make a battleground of the classroom, he said, and are a "disgrace to scientific education and must be done away with...
...highest grades as a general rule, was his comment, go to the student who is the best "ape", to the one who can best imitate his teacher...
...that study, the investigators concluded that college marking is at best far too much a matter of chance, and that every care is needed to make it accurate. It showed, however, it is the difference in examiners which makes the attainment of academic credit a gamble for the student...