Word: markedly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...MARK TWAIN IN ERUPTION-Edited by Bernard DeVoto-Harper...
When Albert Bigelow Paine finished editing his fat, two-volume Autobiography of Mark Twain, he found that he had more than half of Mark's original material left over. To the Mark Twain Estate and Harper & Brothers this seemed a conspicuous waste. So they hired Critic Bernard DeVoto (Mark Twain's America) to see what he could do with the remainder. He chopped, whittled and selected for about two years, occasionally taking time out to read choice excerpts (under the promise of strict secrecy) to breathless Harvard undergraduates. This week, after tossing out "trivialities, irrelevancies," as well...
...number of cuts it will allow its students to take, and each section man can more or less freely interpret those rules. This forces the student to experiment and see how much leeway he can take. He is told that he has "unlimited cuts, as long as his marks are kept up,"; but he usually finds that this concession acts as a boomerang, since his marks won't "keep up" if he starts cutting. The led who would cut the most times without lowering his mark must first know the written or understood course rules on the subject, and then...
...regulated by a voluminous collection of rules definitely stating so many cuts per term, per grade group, per subject. Either of these possibilities is undesirable. Our present system of leaving all judgment to the discretion of the instructor is better, except that it often costs the student an important mark to find out how his section man judges...
Each section man ought to state, in his first meeting, exactly how much class oral work, class written work, and exams are going to count on the year's grade. And if and when he feels that any student is cutting so much that his mark is liable to be lowered, he should let that student know it. The Harvard cut system is so general that the student and the section man must work in close cooperation, if it is to function satisfactorily. As it is now, the clever student often takes advantage of the section man, while the unwary...