Word: standardness
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...French department of the college has afforded many opportunities to the students at large to become acquainted, through the agreeable medium of evening readings with the standard works of French literature. We are sure that an effort to do something similar on the part of the German department would be gladly welcomed by a large number. All of us ought to be allowed to share the pleasure which those who are taking German courses experience in listening to Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Bartlett...
...certainly debatable. He further laments the weakness of our English Department. His criticism, however, is based upon the testimony of graduates of two years and over. Plainly he knows nothing of the reforms wrought among us during the past twelve months. E. G. Ireland, '68, advocates raising the standard of our preparatory schools, until they are more nearly on a level with the German Gymnasia. He very justly says that such a change is needed to make the elective system effective. The subject is timely, and well worth attention. Under the title, Shall Harvard Lead? C. H. Barrows, '76 urges...
...marking system without drawing any perceptible conclusions therefrom, except that it is well to make haste slowly. The real trouble seems to be that all this time they have been working on the wrong tack. It would be far better for them to spend their time in raising the standard of knowledge and incidentally improving the marking system. It is vastly more important that men should acquire much useful knowledge than that they should get high marks. If nothing more than an improvement of the marking system be desired, the best plan would be to abolish all examinations...
...start, can acquire more learning, in a shorter time and with no harder work than we. Besides the possibility that their arts students have acquired in that time, some professional learning (for which we have to go to our Medical, Law, or Divinity schools) does not raise the standard of their arts degree in comparison with ours...
...Professor Laughlin's recent work in Bimetallism. A short abstract of this review may be interesting to many. The writer begins by giving a brief sketch of the silver controversy, which really started in 1876, when the relative values of silver and gold began to change from the old standard of sixteen to one. The knowing ones, even at that time, saw that the alteration would probably be permanent, and that sooner or later the subject of Bimetallism would be an issue in our politics. But it was not until the passage of the Bland-Allison bill, in the early...