Word: germanizing
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -Does it not show some fault in marking when in a comparatively small section twenty-eight men are conditioned? The marks in German 1, recently given out, were quite conspicuous for their lowness. Two high marks, conspicuously high, then an interval, then another stop with several more good marks, then a beautiful stride down to the regions of fifty and sixty. The great trouble with such marking is, that it puts the men taking the course at a disadvantage with others out of it. Equal amounts of work are not equally compensated. Why should not some addition...
...with some important modifications, which may be briefly summoned up by saying that the amount of Latin to be read would be diminished, while the Greek and Latin composition which has been a lion in the path to so many generations of freshmen, might be altogether avoided. The French, German, and English work would also be somewhat increased in difficulty. In fact, one of the objects sought in the proposed change is the improvement of the work in English, both preparatory to, and after entering college This improvement in English is a favorite scheme of President Eliot's, who once...
...German-The translation at sight of simple prose...
...year paper in German I resulted in conditioning...
...turned into a savory pudding, and the debris of fricasseed chicken into a warm and nourishing hash. Instead of the quail on toast or tenderloin steaks for which we had starved ourselves for several days, we were regaled with a strange compound called beef pie, a cousin German of our old enemy beef stew, and the entirely novel expedient of fried mush...