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There is an extraordinary diversity among Harvard instructors in their methods of marking examination papers, and in several instances they have felt impelled to declare their views and systems. One instructor has said, "60 per cent. is a very good mark," while another of equal authority and prominence has declared that 70 per cent. is merely "a defensive mark," and supports his view by giving almost all the men in his elective who do any work a mark above that limit, such marks being exceptional in the other course. Between these range numerous other instructors' views which are diverse...
Tutor in German: "No, that is wholly wrong. Well, translate the next stanza." Student (translating): "I have failed. Mark me well if thou canst." - [Yale...
Although Mr. Longfellow is credited with the opinion that Oscar Wilde is destined to make his mark as a poet, and although others have declared him to be a young man of grand poetic promise, we still cling to the popular judgment of the man and his work as being essentially the true one thus far. And notwithstanding that we deprecate, as much as any, all unmannerly gibes and epithets as tending to our own harm the most, still we claim that Mr. Wilde is a proper subject for reasonable satire and even ridicule, in all that...
...after an examination, and read their blue-books to him. Although this is done to save the professor's eyes, at the same time the practice combines many very material advantages. For although almost every one is dissatisfied with the result accomplished on an examination paper, or with the mark returned, there is usually no method of finding out in what one was right or wrong. This is especially true of those more indefinite subjects in which mental reasoning, and not the mere effort of memory, enters largely into the consideration of work done. But when a man reads...
...call attention to the notice of the meeting of the Entomological Club, given in another column. All who are interested in entomology should not fail to hear Dr. E. L. Mark's farewell address...