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...course throughout the year. In a course where nothing but the two regular examinations count, it is possible for a man to neglect his work during the main part of the year, and by a little hard study, just before the examinations, to obtain as high a mark as the man who worked faithfully and regularly on the course. As no one examination can completely cover any course, there is too much at stake in one of the half-yearly examinations. There is too large a margin for chance to enter into the result...
...same instructor has also adopted another feature which we believe is a part of a few other courses in college. The men are allowed to substitute theses on special subjects pertaining to the course for a part of the course, and their mark on these theses enters into the calculation of the year's mark on the course. This substitution is entirely optional, and makes it possible for a man either to base all his work on the course itself, or, if he chooses, he can do a great deal of outside work connected with the course, always spurred...
...seemed very unjust to many that the freshman year, which is entirely taken up with required work, a great deal of which may be distasteful and onerous to most men, should count so much more than any other subsequent year. As a result a man who received a low mark for his freshman year's work felt no great inclination to study harder afterwards in the hope of bettering his degree, as he felt himself severely handicapped...
Indignant student who has received only 30 per cent. - "Prof. H -, I don't deserve this mark." Obliging professor - "Yes, Mr. X - , I was a little partial in your case...
...laid conspiracy the "Harvard Associates" may be plotting is not known; neither are the motives of revenge which induced them to wilfully pilfer Harvard's venerable name. But the outrage of the act is none the less flagrant. Perhaps the Howard Associates will prosecute them for infringement of trade-mark...