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There is an extraordinary diversity among Harvard instructors in their methods of marking examination papers, and in several instances they have felt impelled to declare their views and systems. One instructor has said, "60 per cent. is a very good mark," while another of equal authority and prominence has declared that 70 per cent. is merely "a defensive mark," and supports his view by giving almost all the men in his elective who do any work a mark above that limit, such marks being exceptional in the other course. Between these range numerous other instructors' views which are diverse...
Newton Case, of Hartford, Ct., has offered to give $100,000 for the library for the Hartford Theological Seminary provided an equal amount is raised...
...Peiraens one day to make a bargain with a native waterman for a sail-boat to take him across the harbor, astonished the man by asking him for a 'transport-boat,' - something that would carry half a dozen regiments of horse. But the Yale professor was any man's equal in the fine-print rules and multifarous exceptions of the grammar. Go to Chicago, not to Athens, for your professors of Greek, gentlemen. In such matters sit at the feet of men of ripe experience like President Barnard of Dartmouth. He knows a good Grecian when he sees...
...opportunity to profit by it is past. There is an undoubted and valuable advantage in the practice of theme-writing, and it is well that the subjects for inspiration have been made so much more interesting and the methods of criticism so much more advantageous. Nothing scarcely can equal the despair of him who finds a lot of dry and unsuggestive subjects set for composition, and nothing is more disheartening than to feel that mere polished, empty formality of expression counts for more than original and characteristic work. There are styles and styles in literature, and no man ought...
...receipts of the box office show that there were nearly 30,000 persons present, and an equal number of slaves and women...