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When the marks for the first preliminary brief were given out it was found that a large number of men had received grade E. On further investigation it has turned out that a very large proportion of these low marks were given to men whose papers were corrected by one particular instructor in the course. This gentleman has announced to the members of his division, that over half the students would fail in the course unless their work improved. From this I infer that he gave E to over half the papers which he corrected, which by the way, were...
...start was from in front of the Hemenway Gymnasium at 4.15, and the men arrived back in Cambridge at about 6 o'clock. The run out was along Massachusetts avenue through Lexington, the return being made by way of Waverly and Belmont. Most of the return home was down grade and consequently a very brisk pace was set. Captain Burdette had charge of the men. Next Friday there will be a road race...
...unnecessary. - (a) Highest education already accessible to women: C. W. Eliot, Annual Report, Jan. 1895. - (1) Radcliffe College supplies it to undergraduates. - (x) Instruction of same grade as at Harvard. - (y) Given by Harvard teachers. - (2) Harvard supplies it to graduates. - (x) Graduate courses open to Radcliffe. - (b) This plan is practicable and efficient. - (1) Objections to co-education eliminated. - (2) It has been adopted successfully elsewhere. - (v) Newnham College, at Cambridge, Eng. (w) Giston College, Oxford. - (x) Barnard College, Columbia. - (y) Western Reserve University...
...best, any system of graded marking is likely to prove not wholly satisfactory. On the border line between two grades there must always be a number of men whose proper rank it is extremely difficult to determine. Even assuming, what it would be unwise to assert, that examinations are absolutely reliable tests of a student's attainment, there would still be the danger of his suffering from some unintentional injustice in the marking; and upon a doubtful decision of the mark in a single course, may hinge the really important question as to the grade of the final degree...
Obviously a misleading estimate is more to be feared where the marker must decide between many grades of narrow compass, than where he decides between few grades of broad compass. A three-grade system, for instance, would do away with the difficult distinctions between A and B and between C and D. When first adopted, it would of course be some what difficult of adjustment to the present conditions which determine the award of degrees with distinction; but in operation it would more than repay for any temporary disturbance it might cause...