Word: systemize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tenths of the students on that subject. If we are to have a return of regular, oft-recurring examinations, let us have them in the shape of monthlies, to whose occurrence we can look forward with certainty. Such an arrangement would be far less disagreeable than the present whimsical system...
...difficult and vexatious work necessary to prepare for an hour examination should be inflicted upon the great number of conscientious students, simply for the good of a few who are either lazy or reckless? It seems that nearly all the instructors are coming to this opinion. Such a system seems to accord ill with the liberal spirit that generally pervades Harvard's action. We believe in a simple warning and then an appeal to the midyear and final examinations to settle the question whether a student has done his duty...
...marking system at Columbia has been abolished, and now a student is simply rated as proficient or deficient. The number of allowed absences has been reduced from one-fourth to onefifthy of the whole number of recitations...
...university: but, in the latter, in recent times, there is a manifest return to old-fashioned tutorial methods in the institutions of the so-called Seminar, where professor and student are once more brought to gather as master and pupil. Harvard College has never departed altogether from the scholastic system upon which the institution was founded. In the maintenance of the classics, the lecture-system, tutors, examinations and recitations, as well as of religious exercises, and of moral restraints, this university has held fast things that are good. Here are the theological germs of the modern system of scholastic training...
...Harvard, as elsewhere, the best practical teachers have evolved from the tutorial system. If one looks backward through Harvard catalogues for a period of thirty-five or forty years, he will discover that the present academic staff is largely of tutorial origin. From Dr. Peabody and President Eliot, who began their official connection with the college-the first in 1832, the second in 1854-both as tutors of mathematics, down to the most recent appointments of instructors and assistant professors, this statement will in general hold tone. Harvard, founded to 'advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity' has always remained...