Word: systemize
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...examination of the elective pamphlet shows that the principal professors have from 8 to 13 hours a week of recitations or lectures. This does not look very large, but it must be remembered that much additional work is entailed in the preparation of work, that the marking system and the examination system as at present used require much extra labor, and that if the instructor has a taste for "one-hours" he may have five or six hundred blue books to examine every year. Some have more than this...
...required per cent will be placed on the rank-list, but extra courses will not be credited on the Annual Scale. All things considered, we cannot find fault with the Faculty for making the new rule. But we hope that all the Professors will adapt themselves to the elective system and voluntary recitations, so that there will be no need of extra courses or a protection against the caprice of the marking-system...
...maintained that the plan here proposed is the best, but that the method pursued by the instructors might be changed for the better. As has already been shown, the present system does not allow the same privilege to all, and thus disqualifies some for speaking for the Boylston Prizes. In other words, the way in which instruction is given at Harvard produces the same effect, regard being had to the Boylston Prizes, as a close corporation. To bring up the department of elocution to the proper standard we need more instructors. If these cannot be furnished by the College...
...publish in another column an article on instruction in elocution. It is hardly necessary to reiterate the necessity of a better system of instruction in this subject, so neglected here at Harvard. We must disagree with the writer, however, when he blames the instructors. Both those gentlemen are extremely painstaking and diligent in their efforts to raise the standard of elocution at Harvard. The trouble arises not from their lack of effort, but from the impossibility for two men to perform the work which is put upon them. As the writer says, those who do not engage their time very...
...been puzzling my brains over is, why I should be surprised. In a University where the curve can affect either a ball or a mark indifferently; where the men who want to learn the most and study hardest get the lowest marks; where an instructor marks on the English system, and assures you, as he gives you sixty per cent, that this would entitle you to honors at Oxford or Cambridge; where you can calculate any action of the Faculty by the simple rule of opposites; where, in fact, you can get everything by expecting and deserving nothing, and vice...