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...coming meeting of the Conference Committee on Wednesday suggests the marking system. The report of the special committee, appointed to correspond with other colleges on marking systems, will be made at this meeting and will embrace information from about twenty colleges. The work of this committee will be accomplished when a concise report containing an abstract of this information shall have been submitted: It then remains for the conference to discuss various plans. Discussion is necessary; no result can be reached without it. We all earnestly hope, however, that discussion on this question will crystallize into some suggestion of destruction...
...also appreciated. Those who have elected his course, in making this complaint would simply call attention to the fact that they have elected other courses also, and the unpleasant choice is forced upon them, of slighting other work for his work, or of accepting 75 as the highest possible mark in History 13, and devoting the attention due their other courses to them...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Much dissatisfaction is felt at the announcement that the members of History 13 and 18, who do not do special work in those courses, can attain a maximum mark of only 75 per cent. The announcement in the elective pamphlet certainly would not lead any one to suppose that such a method was to be adopted. The special work in the courses is more nearly equivalent to a half course than a quarter course, while the routine work is equal in amount to that of any full course in college...
...during the past few years. A more elevated idea of gentlemanly conduct exists. "Hazing, window smashing, disturbing a lecture room, are things of the past." Desire for honors and ambition to gain good standing, have been quickened. The middleman in the freshman class in 1874-5, received an average mark of 59; the middle man of '84 gained...
...time is astonished at the great number of athletic uniforms bearing designations pecular to class teams. He at once remarks upon the great size of our athletic organizations. He is much surprised, however, when he is informed that the beautiful display of crimson letters and figures is not a mark of distinction, but a badge of 'varsity. The slender figure proudly bearing the talismanic figure '89 is not that of a champion of eighty-nine's contests against the blue, but is simply that of - a freshman. We might even invade the sacred precincts of eighty-eight and comment upon...