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THERE is a growing tendency among certain of the professors to weed out a large number of the men who take their elective by giving very low marks and discouraging any who wish to join after the term begins. This usually happens in an elective which, since it meets the wants of a great many students, is naturally popular; but there is no reason why a professor should mark fifteen or twenty per cent below the average for the express purpose of lightening his own work. This course of action seems to suggest - what is elsewhere apparent - that some...
...make a furtive mark...
...last meeting of the Natural History Society, papers were read by Dr. Mark, Mr. Davis, and Mr. Jeffries, '81. A series of very beautiful photographs of India were shown by Mr. Davis. The Society thinks of preparing a catalogue of these photographs and exhibiting them to the College...
Under this head the words "degree with distinction" are clearly defined. "Distinction in the degree shall be in three grades; indicated by the words cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude, respectively." Parts at Commencement are to be assigned to those who receive one of the above marks of distinction. Ninety per cent of the maximum mark on the general scale for the whole course takes a summa cum laude; eighty per cent, a magna cum laude; and seventy-five per cent, or Honorable Mention in any study, provided sixty-five per cent has been attained...
...Deficiencies in Scholarship," the regulation that required a conditioned student, in order to make up such condition, to attend the regular exercise in the corresponding course of study for that year has been modified by making attendance voluntary. The minimum mark for a student who has been absent from the regular exercise in any study is no longer raised on account of such absence...