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...past years, when all who applied for admission to the school were let in, provided only that they held college degrees, it was necessary to weed out a large portion of each class at the end of the first year, a portion sometimes running up to thirty percent of the enrolment. The result of this drastic cut, despite the fact that it allowed the University to collect tuition fees for a year from the men whom it could take to the completion of their training, meant carrying along a large amount of the dead wood for a whole year...
...intelligent people of Muncie (and we have a few) are still amazed at how Lynd could be accurate when dealing with statistics such as the percent of high school graduates today as compared with 30 years ago and so utterly unscientific and biased when dealing with personalities and economic philosophy. From the latter standpoint there is a general consensus of opinion that he found what he expected to find, that we have a cross section of Lynd's mind rather than a true picture of the people of this community...
Report of Cooperative--Great increase of business--9 percent dividend declared...
...question was 27 per cent and a hard marker gave it 21 per cent, he would have a handicap of 6 percent north, which would be added to the mark he gave. Similarly, if any easy marker gave it 32 per cent, he would have a handicap of 5 per cent south, which would be subtracted from the mark he gave. This would remove the last obstacle to a perfect system of grading--varying degrees of strictness in marking
...that the calibre of instruction offered to Freshmen and others who enroll in the large elementary courses, that are taught by young section-men, is exceedingly poor. The fact that fifty per cent of these men have had less than three years of teaching experience, and over thirty percent are enrolled in graduate school study, seems to be one of the principal reasons for this unfortunate situation. Thus the University seems to be bent on crucifying the Freshman Class on the standards of Graduate School students, who need employment to tide them over their early years. If the administration continues...