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...marks according to the percentage scale, and then reduce them to the terms of the class system. Now, in in fact, whatever reference there is to percentage is merely for the student's convenience in estimating the value of his mark. The instructor would naturally consider, not whether a book deserved eighty-four or eighty-six, but whether it ought to be marked "good," or excellent." It is quite as likely that a book marked excellent would receive but eighty-four, if marks were assigned in percentage, as that the case suggested by "Inquirer" should occur. The chances that...
...dinner of the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality Association will take place at Parker's Hotel, Boston, on Tuesday evening, February the 23rd at seven o'clock. The price per plate will be two dollars. All members, active and associate, who intend to be present will please sign the book now at Bartlett's as soon as possible...
Mercantile Law at University of Pennsylvania covers the usages and methods of business, the management of property and the administration of trusts and is supplemented by an exposition of the leading principles of the Common Law. The text book is Parson's Laws of Business. Both Columbia and University of Michigan give similar courses. Why the faculty here have not introduced an elective to cover this subject pursued in other colleges, when the beast of Harvard has been always to take the lead in political science, as a matter of deep concern. Of the advantages of such a course...
...book will doubtless be of worth, not only to students of finance, but to all who are interested in the politics of our country. Here, indeed, the work will be especially read, because the subject treated is taken up in one or two of the courses in Political Economy...
...short time ago we had the pleasure of re-printing a very flattering criticism on a book of one of our Greek professors. To-day we publish in another column a similar review of Professor Laughlin's Bimetallism. It is to us extremely gratifying to have the fame of Harvard and Harvard instructors go abroad in this way. Such an evidence that we have been doing, and can do such good work in the department of Political Economy cannot fail to draw students here. The subject has of late been demanding much attention every-where. Accordingly, the lead which Harvard...