Word: precursor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Acta Columbiana in commenting on several changes made in the marking system at Columbia recently, concluded its article as follows: "The Acta hopes that this slight change may be but the precursor of greater ones in the marking system itself. As the college course becomes more and more elective, and Columbia takes on more of the character of a university, the marking system, in its present form, must lose ground." The marking system in vogue in most of our American colleges has been strongly attacked by nearly every member of the college press, and is generally regarded...
ADDITIONAL prizes for Bowdoin Dissertations have been awarded as follows: a prize of seventy-five dollars to N. G. Taylor, '80, for a translation into Greek; a prize of seventy-five dollars to J. Quincy, '80, for a dissertation on Lucretius as the Precursor of Modern Positivism and Fatalism...