Word: systeme
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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These are my main difficulties when the men come to recitations, but alas! your degenerate system of voluntary attendance at recitations has been introduced here. The men seldom attend my recitations, and, when they do condescend to come, generally say, "Not prepared...
...quite at liberty to publish this letter, - indeed, I hope you will do so, for I am anxious to explain 'my' system to any one who thinks either that it differs materially from that of other instructors or that it is a sort of hocus-pocus...
...long as the marking-system exists, so long complaints will be made after every examination, but there is one flagrant case of injustice which should not be passed over in silence. Those who elect a course in French do not expect in a year to learn to write French as well as the Parisians, nor are they told in the elective pamphlet that the examination is to be partly or wholly in French. But when we ask for our marks, what is the answer? "You have a very low per cent, and I feel that you ought to have more...
Other instructors here use the curve system of marking to accomplish the same end, and declare that it is "infallible," but I make it a point never to use any system, - a principle that prevents my having to work outside of the recitations...
...understand from your President's Report that the voluntary attendance system succeeds well with you. You must have some excellent way of getting students to attend, for it can't be that men are allowed to cut without penalty...