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...general practice of giving men their marks after each examination. The distinctions engendered are trivial in reality, but are usually the cause of much dissatisfaction, except to those happy-go-lucky creatures who do enough work to pass with certainty, and do not care for high rank. By certain general groupings - "very good," "good." "fair," etc., down to "not passed" - a sufficient distinction might easily be made in point of scholarship. If a man is working for honors, and deserves them, let him be informed of his success, and the man who fails may also be made acquainted with...
...experiment which the university has tried of late years of inviting prominent specialits, either professors at other institutions or independent scholars, to deliver university lectures before the students is, we believe, proving itself a success. It is certainly an innovation that gives great promise for the future in broadening the aims and increasing the opportunities of the college. Its direct results, of course, are not made apparent by examinations as in all other courses; but this is hardly to be called a drawback to the system. It may perhaps come to pass that this innocent experiment shall result in showing...
...university in Germany. Those students, prepared by private tutors, would then have to pass the final examination of some high school or academy. Harvard, today, would be relieved of much trouble should it accept such certificates from Exeter, Andover, Quincy and other academies and high schools of a certain standard...
...really a matter for wonder. While these things are so, while the freshman course remains so arbitrary and unattractive in so many respects, and while its scope is so diffused and its arrangement so incoherent, it is to be expected that men will be driven to partially neglect certain subjects, and then to resort to the cramming system to save themselves at the end, whether the subjects be taught by lectures or by the most antiquated and iron-bound sort of recitations possible...
...Bellows of New York. This characteristic of Dr. Bellows was well appreciated by the New York Alumni when they expressed their wish that he might represent them on the board of overseers; although, as will be remembered, he was prevented from taking his seat on that board because of certain legal technicalities which hindered the board from receiving him into their number...