Word: exaction
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...grinding and the polishing are done as follows: In the first place the curves of the lens are determined by experiments with smaller models, aided, of course, by the maker's long experience. Then an iron disk, large enough to-cover the glass, is made into a concave shape exactly corresponding to the desired convexity of the lens, thus, in reality forming a species of mould. This disk, which by the way is called the "tool," is placed on the glass, and by a simple mechanical device is made to rotate upon it. When the grinding is completed...
...experience of all students who are candid with themselves, must lead them to oppose exact numerical marking. Princeton, Pennsylvania, Ann Arbor, and Johns Hopkins, have discarded it, adopting grading by classes. Why is Harvard so backward? Why is it that this college dedicated to truth clings with such tenacity to an outgrown institution? The students should raise a voice condemning this evil. And this voice should be heard in the conference with no uncertain sound. The resolution which was tabled expressing a foregone conclusion, should have been passed, and ought certainly to be passed at the next meeting. With this...
...bold, bad man. Now a grind is never a bold, bad man. He is just the opposite. He can give you the length in parasangs of Xenephon's march to the sea; he can sketch for you a technical plan of Olympus; he can tell you the exact size of the sail-cloth in which Helen, the divine of women, was wrapped when the lily-like voiced ancients threw one to the other the winged word, as she passed them by; he can tell you who was the grandmother of Apollo; in fine he can tell you almost anything...
...eradicated, in some degree, by changing the system. A grading of courses, so that marks received in the harder courses will receive their proportionate weight on the average mark; use of numbers instead of names on the examination books; grading of students by general classes instead of by exact numerical values, all of these are possible improvements over the present system. Objections, however, can be raised against all of them. There is no just marking symtem that is suited for Harvard's elective system. The nearest approach to justice would be an abolition of numerical marking no exact grading...
...world, the appropriation this year for carrying on the work was only a few hundred dollars. In the study of physics delicate and accurate instruments are absolutely necessary. Many instruments in the laboratory are in so wretched a condition that although the student may make the most exact calculations, he can feel sure that his results will not be correct. It is not even now too late to make an additional appropriation. The success of our physical studies demands that better opportunities should be afforded the student than he can at present enjoy...