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Word: objectionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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It is generally conceded that the evils of our marking system can only be remedied by supplanting percentages by a plan of ranking by classes, e.g. "excellent," "very good," "good," etc., as is the custom in German High schools. The great difficulty in this innovation lies in the matter of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Marking System. | 1/26/1886 | See Source »

There is a need felt by many students which the elective pamphlet does not satisfy. A course is demanded in common English law, not for those students who intend to become lawyers, but for those who are looking forward to business. Such a course, embracing the general features of common...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/20/1886 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I want to give expression to a feeling which prevails among many students at least, in regard to the use of the gymnasium for the Cambridge Assemblies. If the closing of the gymnasium for half a day last Saturday, or the inconvenience of having apparatus misplaced for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COMPLAINT. | 1/15/1886 | See Source »

So we see that, whatever combination of studies we have to deal with, individual marks and averages must be on a coarse scale; the system I suggest will be less definite, but more correct and just, than the present system. And it will serve the purposes of the university in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Marking System. | 12/18/1885 | See Source »

Let us not talk of "narrowing down our models" when objection is made to the imitation of England's institutions. We need no broader or more liberal copy than the true story of Americanism. As for those who find "the dress of Englishmen more becoming, and their speech more musical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANGLOMANIA II. | 12/11/1885 | See Source »

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