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...course will give an uncalled-for publicity to the names, and the fact that it will gratify the curiosity of a few is no reason for adopting it. The matter is a delicate one, and suggests the need of rewards for scholarship itself, in addition to the present general provision for pecuniary aid. If the Faculty persist in the course upon which they have determined, we may expect to find the names of those who hold "scholarships" in the next Harvard Index...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

THIS complaint is not of the marking system in general, only of the particular phase of it that appears in German 7. We do not complain that it is carelessly executed; on the contrary, the instructor takes more pains to examine the books carefully and justly, according to his light, than can be demanded of any one. It is the system that is wrong, and radically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARKS IN GERMAN 7. | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

...real acquirements; but so long as he is required, in order to test the faithful performance of duty, to submit to examinations, upon the result of which college rank is made to depend, such examinations should be fair and impartial, and they should be based upon sound, well-regulated general principles, rather than the arbitrary and fanciful theories of each individual instructor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

...Mountains. Persons may enter upon their work at any time after June 15. The fee for instruction and the use of camp equipage will be fifty dollars for the term of six weeks. Board in camp will be about five dollars per week. The school will be under the general supervision of the Professor of Palaeontology, who will be present for a part of the term; he will be assisted by two or more competent instructors. For further information address Prof. N. S. Shaler, Cambridge, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/19/1878 | See Source »

...some English classic that is none the less profitable because it will not add five per cent to my Greek mark. Indeed, if I should grind continually on my electives, I might score better marks; but at what a cost! What progress should I make in the much-vaunted "general culture"? I do not mean the culture that is obtained by lounging at Parker's, - a kind that is becoming obsolete, thank '78; but the culture that is given by a broad course of reading, - the reviews, of course; George Sand, of a warm afternoon; Schiller, of a cool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAN OF MARKS. | 4/19/1878 | See Source »