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...plan will be put in operation in English 5 during the next half year. It will be announced on Friday...
...results of value. The subject is no more technical than that of political economy or the study of finance. It is kindred to the subjects of many courses, and it could be conducted in a manner that would connect it intimately with them. Objection may be urged against this plan, on the ground that similar courses are given in the Law School, that are open to students in the academic department. These courses in the Law School are, however, deeper and more special than is called for by the time or disposition of general students. Reference to the Yale curriculum...
...great complaint at present in this matter is one resulting from sectarian feelings. Catholics, or Jews are afraid to send their children to school where protestant religious forms are observed, and vice versa. The plan of having separate religious exercises for the different factions in the schools does not commend itself to us; for it would not only cause much more trouble and probably increased expense, but would also strengthen quite unnecessarily the feelings of disagreement among the parents of the pupils and their teachers. And so unless a single service can be held in which all can have confidence...
...assertions would. We surely did not need a Conference Committee to tell us, after three months of discussion, that the present marking system of the university is unjust, and that it ought to be changed. What we wanted, what we expected was a recommendation to the faculty of a plan decreasing the present evils. This would have been an indication of student opinion. To the argument that "students cannot expect to originate a plan that will recommend itself to professors who have lived for years in an atmosphere of marks," we should answer that one of the purposes...
...notice, in a manner in which it has never before been presented, from the side of student conviction. The marking system is one that must be remedied by more careful and mature thought, than that of the student members of the conference. Students can not expect to originate a plan for marking that will recommend itself to professors who have lived for years in the atmosphere of marks, and have made special study of methods of teaching and of college discipline. While this side of the question may be true, it is none the less true that students can make...