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...Speakership should be a judicial position, entailing-(a) Familiarity with the rules.- (b) Strict impartiality: Bryce I. 134, 135; Nation...
...right view were taken of the matter, would not be desired by the students themselves. Work on college papers is usually undertaken as an agreeable diversion subordinate to the regular work of the University. It is not intended to supply deficiencies in the curriculum and, if subjected to strict oversight and compulsorily kept up, would lose half its charm...
...awarded half blues which differ slightly in each case. Members of such minor organizations as the golf club, the shooting club, the swimming club, and so forth, wear special colors, not the university blue. The etiquette with regard to all these colors-and in fact all club colors-is strict, and in consequence the most famous "blue" is proud to wear his insignia. At Harvard the 'varsity blazer was long ago relegated in consequence of vulgar misappropriation, the red sweater is following it, and now the letter H has started on the downward path. The English system is of course...
...system of marking in English C is strict, I admit; but so is that of the other composition courses; so is that of the German and classical department. If the one course is subject to criticism on that score, so are most of the other collegiate courses. It can hardly be urged that the standard of English C should be more lax than that of the other prescribed courses just because English C is very distasteful to many of us. For an instructor to give men D who deserve E, is to attempt to right one wrong by doing another...
...what by his adverb "practically"? Surely he is aware that very slight changes in brief-structure oftentimes mean great alterations in the sense and effectiveness of the argument. Again, does he not know that accidents often happen in any system and at any place? And that strict accuracy in marking is an utter impossibility? Instructors are not gods, but men; that is, beings susceptible to over-work, weariness, haste. Injustice must occasionally be done by them; a thousand stern supervisors could not prevent that. Hence, even admitting Junior's "several cases" to be valid (I, for one, do not admit...