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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - The new plan in sophomore English, namely, that each student should briefly criticise the work of a class-mate, went into effect last Thursday. While it is too early to decide about the practical workings of the plan, we can still consider its theoretical merits and demerits. It cannot be denied that there must be a great deal of advantage accruing to a man from an examination of other men's themes, which he would get in no other way that has as yet been suggested. This comparison of the styles of others, and possibly of better...
...interesting change in the new faculty regulations is one which, though it received comment in our review, deserves more than passing notice. We refer to the abolition of the old and time honored warning and the substitution of the slower, but far more dreadful, admonition. No longer can a student depend for mural decoration upon the attractive cards issued by the faculty. No "prayer" or other warning shall steal upon a man and cast a temporary gloom over his existence. But, after we have been lulled into indifference of the faculty dynamite stored beneath us, suddenly the explosion comes...
These evils, however, are rarely pointed out. It is taken for granted that everyone realizes them. All students to a certain extent recognize the unfairness of marks, especially when they are made the basis of honors and scholarships. No two instructors give marks on the same standard. A mark in one course of ninety represents the same knowledge of the subject for which another instructor would give seventy-five. Again, a mark of sixty in one course represents work that would receive eighty-five or ninety in another course. Marks, in the third place, represent, at Harvard, work done only...
While in the main we agree with our correspondent of to-day, we cannot approve of his more violent phrases. It is true that a tendency of Harvard student-correspondents of leading daily papers to bring discredit on their Alma Mater by sensational writing is becoming day by day more noticeable. If any reporter exaggerates what he hears, he is to be severely criticized. For the college-man who endeavors to make capital for himself or for his paper by gross misrepresentations of college events, no criticism is too sharp, no condemnation too severe. A man, who can so forget...
SOPHOMORE THEMES.Theme III, due on Thursday, Nov. 12, will be distributed for criticism to the class on Friday, Nov. 13, from 2 to 4 o'clock, in Sever 5. It is important that every one should come to get a theme to criticise. On Thursday, Nov. 19, each student will deposit in the theme-box in Sever 3,-1, the theme that he has criticised, together with his criticism of it; 2, the original and the re-written copy of his first theme...