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First.-Six hours a week of the average student's time will gain in certain courses a mark much higher than in certain other courses; yet all three hour courses are counted equal. The student is therefore tempted to elect easy courses in preference to harder and more profitable ones...
...work, as well as proficiency. Let the general rank list be made up by averaging two rank lists: one, the present list, representing proficiency; the other, representing amount of work, 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...
Third.-For this evil there seems to be no radical cure; but it would be discouraged by recognizing fully the fact that a full course may afford only partial work to a student who has already taken a kindred elective. This is now partially recognized by prohibiting certain courses (as German 1 and 2, and Italian 1) to students who have taken other electives in the same branches. Now extend this principle to other courses; not excluding advanced students, but letting them count it only two-thirds, one-half, or one-third of their ordinary value, in proportion...
There is no denying that a certain set of young Americans, more particularly in New York and in Boston, affect the Englishman and ape all his affectations. They mimic every English trick in the most snobbish way. They attempt an English accent, and they sprinkle Briticisms freely through their speech. They talk of their "fads," and they call people "cads," and they abound in the most amusing little affectations. Their greatest happiness is to be taken for an Englishman-a joy not often vouchsafed to them. It was to one of these pitiful imitations-a young Bostonian-that a clever...
...magic, one versed in this wonderful science can look through solid rock and tell what lies hidden far within. The tool of the petrographist is a polarizing microscope, that is, an ordinary compound microscope in which two Nicol's prisms of Iceland spar are placed at a certain distance apart...