Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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WILLIAMS.Marks are given on recitations and examinations, and on the basis of these marks honors are assigned. In the two last years the marks are largely determined by examinations and the professor's personal estimate of the man's work. The marks given at the end of each term are expressed, not in number, but by certain adjectives as very high, low, medium, etc. These correspond to fixed grades, so that one can tell approximately his numerical work as very high means nine-tenths on a scale of ten. For the awarding of prize scholarships the class average...
...shown that although the auditor's monthly report exhibits approximately what the rate of board is, still an average of the monthly reports can not be taken as showing the price of board for the whole term. Furthermore, that the monthly report is useful in so far as it gives an approximate price of board, and therefore should not be done away with. In making up the price for the term, an approximated element, arising from the fact that the board for two or three weeks must be calculated ahead, must be taken into consideration. We would deprecate any thoughtless...
First, as to the price itself, $4.58, it is higher of course than any one wishes it to be; but it is not very much higher than those closely connected with the conduct of affairs expected. The term bill runs from December 27 to March 27. To get the amount of bills payable in these twenty-seven days of March, it is always necessary to make an estimate. The total number of weeks board is known, and for the March of this year was 2076. The amount of bills payable isgot by taking the same fractionable part of the bills...
...month of March? I believe there is nothing wrong in the monthly statements. It should be remembered that no separate report for January has ever been got out. As a fact, it is easily shown from the figures used by the auditor in computing the price for this term, that the cost of board for January, and the few days of December which come into this term, was more than $4.28 (the reported price for December and January). Moreover, a settlement of accounts for last term shows that the surplus fund was increased out of money raised for bills payable...
Without filling the page with the figures which I have in hand I will simply say that the term bill price has never, except in one instance, in the past two years (the only ones I have investigated) agreed with the averages of the monthly statements. The variation has been from 3 to 22 cents, and in both directions. It is not, therefore, safe to say the cost for March will be, as your correspondent makes out, $4.78. The total number of weeks board charged on the books in different months is variable. His reasoning supposes it is the same...