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...Winkley introduces his article by calling attention to the important bearing of the dormitory system on the social life of the college and proceeds to give a "guide-book" description of some of the principal dormitories. In connection with the matter of the expense of living at Harvard Mr. Winkley says: "Harvard has often been called an expensive place, and not unjustly so, in comparison with other colleges, among the leading items of expense being room-rent. Few rooms rent for less than sixty dollars a year, and in the better class of buildings, like Matthews, Weld, or Holyoke...
...should decide upon such action, the college at large would show renewed interest in rowing and that increased subscriptions would flow in to cover the necessarily increased expenses of the club. Of course there may be objections to such a scheme, but if Yale can carry on such a system, it would seem strange that it could not flourish here, where we have more material and better accommodations for winter work. Even if the formation of a second eight be thought impracticable, the selection of a university "four" from the unsuccessful candidates for the university would still be possible...
...connection with the subject of the marking system, the question of the examination system naturally arises. It is of course difficult to add to this subject anything beyond what is annually said in its condemnation by both professors and students. The thought that most naturally suggests itself, however, is one of wonder that today the problem sems no nearer solution at Harvard than it did when its discussion was first started an untold number of years ago. Every year condemnation of the system grows fiercer and more general Not only students, but professors of the most conservative habit of mind...
Whether we are suffering from an "inflated" marking system was a subject discussed by one of Harvard's professors at a recent recitation. It is this professor's opinion that we are. Doubtless other professors can be found who will not agree with his views. According to the former view, the present standard of marking has by slow abuse gradually become so inflated that now it is quite impossible to give positive marks on a just scale, which shall without unfairness indicate the exact standing of any student. Therefore it has become necessary in order that the marks...
...affairs, if correctly represented, no one can deny is truly demoralizing. We are not aware that as yet any satisfactory remedy for it has been suggested. Indeed, it is a very serious question whether in the nature of the case there is any remedy possible, and whether the marking system itself is not to blame for the results. That the marking system is in itself essentially unjust and impracticable in any liberal educational system is an opinion that is already largely held and steadily growing. Moreover, it is our opinion that the present form of the marking system...