Word: systeme
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...expected to devolve upon them, rather than their connection or non-connection with this or that society. It is sufficient to say that our hopes were disappointed. The result of the action of the meeting remains to be seen; but we trust sincerely that the coalition or "stuffed club" system has seen its last days, and that Class Day itself will be abolished before such a scene as Boylston Hall witnessed on Wednesday is repeated. The list of officers elected is not published, because most of them have already resigned their positions, and further action by the class will...
...RUMOR is afloat that the Case-system of instruction is to be dropped...
...question of a fair marking-system has not unfrequently been discussed here, but never with sufficient result to remove the present general dissatisfaction with several methods now in use. Inasmuch as there are nearly as many marking-systems as instructors at Harvard, it seems impossible in verum natura that even a majority of these systems should be entirely right and fair...
...basis of this argument is the variability of human brain-power. This makes the system of marking solely on two three-hour examinations very unfair. For it is certainly not right, since no instructor or student is exempt from this condition of our mental and nervous constitution, to judge of a man's year's work by three hours' work of a brain which, acted on by many causes, favorable or unfavorable, may be either extremely active or extremely inactive at a time selected at random, so far as the individual student's health is concerned. Why should several...
This argument seems to me insuperable, and absolutely to condemn the marking-system above mentioned. The introduction of hour-examinations is an incomplete step toward justice. It is only by marking on recitations, also, that perfect justice is done us. This system of frequent marking eliminates variable elements, and I think it would also eliminate many of the inherent evils of the partial systems, while uniting their advantages. And if this or any other is the only really right system, it ought not to be left to individual discretion to choose any of several other methods, but there should...