Word: markes
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...LTHOUGH I know that complaints on the marking of one or two instructors have been frequently made in your columns, I venture to ask you to give me space for one more remonstrance. The marks in the different courses in English this year have been very low, - ridiculously so when the nature of the work is considered, - and even men who always obtain high marks in other courses have been rated at 20% and below in this. Men will continue to take these courses, because they are so very interesting, and the recitations are easy to prepare; but when...
...will be seen in our "Correspondence," just complaint is once more made about the marks in English. It seems very hard that something cannot be done to insure fairer marking. The instructor seems deaf to all remonstrance, and after each examination warnings are so numerous that to receive one is the rule rather than the exception. It certainly seems a great pity that men should be afraid to take the English and German courses because of the apparent certainty of a condition, or, at best, of a very low mark. Where the system of taking off so much for each...
...Freshman Nine will play with the St. Mark's School Nine at Southboro', to-morrow, and with the Adams Academy Nine at Quincy, next Wednesday...
...books are examined and the mistakes marked without the instructor's knowing, in a single instance, whose book he examines. The names are written on a slip of paper, with the number of mistakes each has made. Then the man with fewest mistakes, say six, is given the highest mark, say 98%. This is almost exactly the relation the best man's mistakes and per cent bore at the mid year. The man with seven mistakes gets 97%, and the man with twelve gets 92%. Thus the first man loses only 1% for each three mistakes, while the others lose...
...have come to the conclusion that the marking system should be instantly abolished, and - What did you say? - grapes? That is very old, and, besides, I never did aspire to a lofty mark. Spider, who is chuckling at his triumph over me, is an unfeeling brute. His victory is not a fair one. He does not consider that while he has been grinding at that dull Greek, I have been enjoying some English classic that is none the less profitable because it will not add five per cent to my Greek mark. Indeed, if I should grind continually...