Word: think
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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When the members of an elective feel, almost without exception, that they deserve higher marks, it is highly probable that something is wrong, and in this case it seems to be the system. The whole division think that the instructor ought to raise all the marks, even though some would be over 100%. Yet this would only balance the minus per cents given in the elective...
...statement that Mr. Colgate withdrew from the Columbia four in consequence of a dispute is denied by the Spectator, which says that he took this step entirely from private reasons. It adds, with dignity, "we did not think it worth while to notice the rumor while it was going the rounds of the city papers...
...should think you did," said the Bulletin Board. "You sound like a death-tolling when you're first rung...
...Sanders Theatre Concert by the Glee Club and the Pierian Sodality is announced for the 30th of this month, and we are glad to think that the Boat-Club is to have this compensation for the loss of their income of past years from theatrical performances. Whether the compensation is adequate depends greatly on the generosity of the students, and we trust that all will love music enough, or be sufficiently public-spirited, to make the concert a pecuniary success by their patronage; that it will succeed as far as the Glee Club and the Pierian can make...
...might be placed among the Graduate courses. There is no danger that the elective will be overcrowded, since the instructor retains the power of limiting the number who take the elective. The same reason will shut out any men who, having the gift of talking indefinitely without much thought, think to find this course a soft elective...