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...handsome buildings which have risen around us bear witness to the generosity of Harvard's friends. Here is an opportunity for some would-be-benefactor of the college, which we hope will not be neglected. A large dormitory heated by steam, with single and double rooms at a medium price, could easily be filled and would prove a very acceptable source of income to the college...
...marks honors are assigned. In the two last years the marks are largely determined by examinations and the professor's personal estimate of the man's work. The marks given at the end of each term are expressed, not in number, but by certain adjectives as very high, low, medium, etc. These correspond to fixed grades, so that one can tell approximately his numerical work as very high means nine-tenths on a scale of ten. For the awarding of prize scholarships the class average for the year is considered alone. To decide about prizes usually special examinations are held...
...lost in the first movement is not renewed as it is in the second, and consequently not so much benefit is derived from it as from the latter. It is of prime importance to use weights proportioned to one's strength, neither too large nor too small, but of medium size...
...letter from Harvard appears in the last Argo. The writer repeats the suggestion recently made in the HERALD apropos of the recent Thanksgiving petition episode, that some official medium of communication ought to be established by the college between faculty and students. "It has not been found," it says, "that a faculty loses its dignity by taking the students into its confidence, and some college faculties have found that it pays to make public announcement, explanation, and exposition of new rules. An arbitrary faculty is oftentimes accountable for an insbordinate 'studentry...
...students of Vassar, it is said are displeased with Mrs. Champney's new book "Three Vassar Girls Abroad." The Vassar girl objects to being brought before the public, nolens volens, as a medium for more than twice-told tales...