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...admit the advantages of the system. It is easier to throw the dice for per cents than to estimate the true value of a year's work. It saves trouble to read through a book and affix to it a cabalistic sign. On the other hand, it requires care and judgment to note accurately the worth of daily work. But an instructor's estimate of men, not marks, would be the fairer method. Two examinations - one upon entrance, one for a degree - would obviate the difficulties of a continuous struggle for marks; if this change be too radical, let rank...
...various sections of the country. The examination on the field work will be held separately from the examination on the two-hour course, and will be upon the notebooks, which count 15 out of 100; on the specimens, which count 5 out of 100. The remaining 80 per cent is upon the examination paper. The third 'hour' on field work occupies three hours a week when visiting the quarries, and two hours when drawing from models. Mr. Davis and Mr. Diller have charge of this course. There will be four or five sections in field work, some of them going...
...number of hours that the average student would have to give to outside work, and what the general nature of that work would be. The statistics of the number of men taking the course, and of the number dropped, &c., as above, would be very useful. The average per cent attained by those who were not conditioned would be interesting. One or two of the professors have thought of publishing some statistics and explanations of their own courses; but no official suggestions of the kind have been made, to our knowledge...
...Great Heavens! you don't mean to say that that was all you got. Why, you will be dropped as sure as a gun. It makes me mad to hear you ninety per cent men talk. If I get sixty...
Within a half per cent...