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...Hotchkiss School announced the appointment of Walter H. Buell as Acting Headmaster to succeed the late Dr. Buehler. Mr. Buell, now 25 years a Hotchkiss master, had of late shared with Dr. Buehler in the school's administration. He is known to the boys as "a hard marker, strict in class and at table, kind at heart and a knock-out German prof." They call him "The Bull," for no more obvious reason than that which has for years inspired Hill School men to call Alfred G. Rolfe, long the counsellor of Hill headmasters, "The Walrus...
What results? The undergraduate is often sadly neglected. The assistant not only has his chief interest elsewhere, but he has usually too many sections, and his remuneration is too small to encourage his spending much time upon them. He becomes a more or less perfunctory marker of papers. The professor is interested in the assistant and his other graduate students; and the assistant is interested in the professor. Meanwhile the undergraduate is forgotten. The University is regarded as a "society of scholars," not as an institution for the education of American youth...
...second, these men do what they would not tolerate for an instant in their "outside" activities. They assume their grade is merely a provisional one which can be raised by a little personal persuasion. Tacitly, they accuse the marker of discrimination against them, in the very breath in which they ask for a personal favor. And yet these men would be the last to admit or desire "pull" in their other work. Mark-pulling is a little more inexcusable than any other kind...
...addition to marking the examinations, the marker will be required to state his opinion fully on each book...
Professor P. M. Rhinelander '91, of the Episcopal Theological Seminary, will speak before the St. Paul's Society in the Noble Room of Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock in the place of Mr. Thayer, of St. Marker's School, who will be unable to come. Professor Rhinelander will speak in preparation for the Corporate Communion to be held in Christ Church tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock. All members of the University are invited to be present...