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...certain abuses which can be to a great extent remedied. One of these abuses is the uncertainty one always feels after having completed his papers as to how near the truth he approximated in his answers. We do not refer to the custom some instructors have of not giving marks, as this needs no comment. But a mark alone is always unsatisfactory enough if the man does not know in what his book is weak. The only way to have examinations do any good besides fixing, though with a delightful degree of uncertainty, his rank, is for the instructor...
...Wells, president of the Oxford University Athletic Club, England, on Dec. 18, took his Bachelor's degree. Last season he beat W. G. George off the mark at the Exeter sports in a half-mile race, and later on in the University sports he defeated Eyre by eight yards...
...sets it off in a distinct contrast to the other papers. Among the items verses also are frequently found, capital hits, such as would form the literary matter of many another hungry journal. The Crimson, shall we say it, has deteriorated; it is not up to last year's mark, but good verses are by no means rare. It is a very noticeable fact, however, that with all the would-be poets in Harvard there are few who affect the French forms of verse so popular at Williams and less so at Columbia...
...universities lies in the requisition at Cornell that a candidate for honors in any subject must be in good standing in the other courses not directly belonging to his honor scheme. That is, a candidate for honors in mathematics, for instance, must not only be a man with marked mathematical ability, but must have a fairly good stand in the other subjects of his college course. This does not seem to be the case at Harvard. Of course a man who fails to get his degree would not be allowed, technically, to take honors at graduation, as he does...
...that has done faithful work in his courses is but little difficulty. A man who gets honors in any subject, receives a magna cum laude degree practically for eighteen hours work. But for a man to get this degree in regular course he must attain a mark of eighty-five per cent. in his last three years, i. e., for 42 hours a week, a mark that would certainly give him honors if he took six courses on the same subject. So that a man practically gets the same degree for eighteen hours work that another man gets for forty...