Word: assignments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...severest punishment which could be inflicted, next to expulsion, was the much dreaded degradation. This, we learn, "consisted in placing a student on the list, in consequence of some offence, below the level to which his father's condition would assign him; and thus declared that he had disgraced his family...
...made up as follows. Find for each student the values of the electives in which he has received a certain per cent. (By fixing this per cent. at 60, 70, or 80, the tendency to superficial work could be repressed.) Arrange the students in the order of superiority, and assign to each position in this list, the per cent. which won the same relative position in the proficiency list. This plan, it is evident, gives as much importance to the quantity, as to the quality of work. It seems strange at first, but it is reasonable, and it would correct...
...merely a question of time as to when some changes must be made, and it would be far better to make this change before it is forced upon us. The glee clubs from their position must be the pioneers in this movement, and to them we must assign either the praise or blame of its fortunes...
Professor Shaler ahs been unable to assign seats in N. H. 4, owing to lack of desks...
...exact standing of any student. Therefore it has become necessary in order that the marks in any one course may not be out of proportion to the standard of marking employed in other courses for the instructor in that course, either to employ an artificial scale and to assign a general mark much higher than could strictly be given to it were it marked in detail, or else to apply some system of equalization, such as raising all the marks in his course by a certain fraction of the mark assigned to each book, or by a certain per cent...