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PHOTOGRAPHS of an instructor in a once popular History Course are now on sale at Sever's. He is represented as just having marked an examination-book forty per cent. The demand has thus far been rather light, so in future a copy of the "Verses from the Harvard Advocate" will be given with each picture...
...expect a very exalted mark. To-day, on entering his chamber of horror, I saw the section sitting with their heads buried in their hands, and Mr. Hut gazing at them with an air of triumph. Creeping to the desk, I gasped: "My mark?" "Eighteen per cent," briskly answered he of condition fame. After the recitation, when about to poison myself with soda at Hubbard's, I was comforted by learning that all the men except two had got under forty...
There was one branch of science for which I thought I had a special taste; I did my paper without a single mistake. Approaching the desk with a confident smile, I was informed, "Your paper was perfect, - not a single error; your mark is eighty-six per cent." "Why," said I, in a discouraged way," "I thought you said that I did a perfect paper." "So I did," said the scientist, in an angry voice; " I never give a higher mark than eighty-six." I wanted to ask him if 86 = 100 with the Faculty in reckoning up averages...
...have heard my mark in Unnatural Physatomy, - one hundred and sixty per cent! Hurrah! As my chum says, Hi! what a mark...
...sure, the student will lose the soothing privilege of a grumble at thirty-three per cent in a prescribed study, nor can the ingenious Junior, a veteran at his trade, complain or explain, should next August discover to him an average of forty-nine and ninety-nine hundredths per centum. But these drawbacks are quite outbalanced by the many evident advantages to be derived from the machine...