Word: worked
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Twenty-two different subjects have been made elective in the Senior year. The required work of the class will occupy eleven hours of the week...
Having occasion lately to consult this work, I found quite a long description of Cambridge and Boston, a few extracts from which may be of interest to students of an antiquarian turn of mind...
...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 per cent of a year's mark...
...University education. The result of all this is, that we are in very nearly the same condition we were a week ago. In one respect we are changed. The leisure time that hung so heavily upon our hands is leisure time no more. Long lists of profound and valuable works have been given us, and reading sufficient to occupy the time of an industrious man for ten years at least has been furnished for the next nine months. Those who have taken courses in history or philosophy find that each instructor firmly believes that since one has taken his course...
SOME Seniors are still without a clear idea of what is expected of them this year. The vote of the Faculty providing for their case has been shown us, and the requirement is simply this; in each half-year's work, on every study, those who enjoy the privilege of voluntary recitations must get fifty per cent of the maximum mark. In other words, a Senior who has a hundred per cent next February on the half-year's work in three of his electives, and but forty-nine in his fourth study, loses his degree. Sixty per cent...