Word: unloaded
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Dates: during 1885-1885
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...another instructor would give seventy-five. Again, a mark of sixty in one course represents work that would receive eighty-five or ninety in another course. Marks, in the third place, represent, at Harvard, work done only in the examination room. A student who has crammed and tutored will unload himself in a blue book and before the returns are in, forgets his knowledge of the whole subject, and yet he receives a mark of eighty, while the steady going student who works from day to day, and whose knowledge is lasting, is rated by the instructor as inferior...