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...another column we print a communication concerning the question of examinations. Among its proposals for raising the standard of undergraduate scholarship the Student Council, in its most recent report, suggests that less emphasis be laid upon final examinations and that greater stress be placed upon frequent hour examinations. The Council maintains that the present system, with its unique emphasis on final examinations, puts a premium on irregular work and results in a vast amount of eleventh-hour "cramming" that makes easy the path of the professional tutor. In our editorial of May, 24, to which the writer of the communication...
...recommendation which we believe is of very great importance and one which should receive the immediate and careful attention of every man interested in Harvard scholarship. This recommendation is to the effect that less importance be laid upon final examinations and that greater stress be placed upon frequent hour examinations. In most courses, under the present system, practically all the emphasis is placed upon a student's showing in the mid-year and final examinations. To such an extent is this true that the marks in these make from one-half to three-fourths of the mark of the year...
...Student Council recommends one which will do away with the evident faults outlined above. Instead of making the mid-year and final examinations count from fifty to eighty per cent. of a student's work in a course, the Council recommends that a system of regular hour examinations at frequent intervals be substituted, the mid-year and final examinations being counted much less than at present in making up the grades in a course. Under such a system regular study would take the place of irregular and uncertain endeavor; more regularity in work would lessen the evils of professional tutoring...
With the race but three days away, the University crew is in a very critical stage of its development. It is now emerging from an extremely bad slump, in which, in spite of many and frequent changes, it seemed impossible to find exactly the right combination. Nearly two weeks ago Newton was put in at stroke, and improvement has been steady since then; nevertheless the eight is not yet entirely together, and the recovery is not smooth enough. The result is that the men are hurried at the catch and are unable to apply their power quickly and evenly. There...
...work at the Camp is organized to duplicate as nearly as possible engineering field and office methods, with the addition of lectures, recitations, and frequent examinations. The day's work begins at 7 o'clock and continues with-out interruption, and under supervision throughout the day. The daily schedule is as follows: rising-hour, 6 o'clock, breakfast, 6.25 o'clock; surveying courses from 7 to 4 o'clock; courses in mechanics and drawing from 7 to 2 o'clock. On Saturday, however, the working hours for all courses are from 7 to 12 o'clock. Only one course...