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...spelling the name of the board is "Shakespeare." I happened to come across a theme the other day, on one of our well known authors, in the heading of which the writer of the theme had spelt the name wrong. I have no doubt that a low mark will be the result of such a mistake. Now why should we countenance the mistake of persons who ought to know better in this instance? Surely they cannot have read or seen a reprint of the first folio of 1623, for there this name as in most good authors is spelt correctly...
These evils, however, are rarely pointed out. It is taken for granted that everyone realizes them. All students to a certain extent recognize the unfairness of marks, especially when they are made the basis of honors and scholarships. No two instructors give marks on the same standard. A mark in one course of ninety represents the same knowledge of the subject for which another instructor would give seventy-five. Again, a mark of sixty in one course represents work that would receive eighty-five or ninety in another course. Marks, in the third place, represent, at Harvard, work done only...
...student who does not attain one half of the maximum mark for the entire work of one year, is held to have failed in the work of that year...
...grown glory of a half column announcement. This photographic matter is an old one. It has been brought to the notice of generation upon generation of Harvard seniors. In fact we keep in type a full set of notices bearing on this subject, from the mild preparatory announcements which mark the entrance of new committees upon their tiresome task, to the frantic appeals which so surely denote the close of the college year. This year we admit that we have been outwitted. None of the customary notices have met the approbation of the new committee. Something more startling was demanded...
...Curtis, Norton, J. F. Clarke, Ripley; Stedman offsets Bryant as coming between the two classes. Of non-college men a larger number may readily be named, Walt, Whitman, Whipple, Trowbridge, Fields, Parton, Stoddard, Bayard Taylor, Eggleston, Harte, Howells, James, Aldrich, Lathrop, Stockton, Piatt, Cable, Crawford, Fawcett, Gilder, Harris, Carleton, Mark Twain, Burroughs. It is possible that some name has been put in one or the other of these lists on the wrong side, but there can be no considerable error, and any one can add to either list according to his own judgment without materially disturbing the balance...