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...that the examination period is approaching again, the vexed question arises: Cannot some regular method of marking be devised, which all the instructors in each freshman department may use. The marking system, which is unfair enough throughout the whole college, is particularly unfair in the case of the freshman year. It so happens that, while several sections pursue the same subject and have an equal amount of knowledge, one division of them is subjected to a very hard examination and the other to an easy one; the former being marked freely, so as to allow nearly every one to pass...
...aside from the papers themselves, it would certainly seem as if steady work throughout the term ought to count a good deal in the final marking, at least in those courses where the recitation system is pursued. The freshman year, being the only year in which the work is required, should be treated differently when it comes to the assignment of marks. In courses where recitations are held, it is much easier to estimate the amount of work each man has accomplished. An examination paper frequently chances on one portion of a subject which is not remembered, when the great...
...many objections to the elective system has been that the student often choose a course under a missapprehension, and after it is too late finds that the course is not what he wanted. When a man can take but a limited number of the courses offered by the college, it is very important that he should choose the courses for which be is best suited, and in which he is most interested. The bare title of each course as it appears in the elective pamphlet gives him but little satisfaction. The pamphlet that have been prepared by students labor under...
...case that any college instructor would take the exact place of any, even the best parent. So, too, at Harvard the theory of what may be called "mechanical repression," such as prevails at military and naval schools, is not maintained. The student, without the pressure of a system of rigid rules, is taught self-respect and self-control. There is more freedom than there was twenty years ago, and the result is there is better order. So also the relation between teacher and student is of a far different character from what it once was. The influence which the young...
...would urge upon the Tennis Association the advisability of reforming the present system of "shacking." The folly of allowing things to continue as at present is obvious. A swarm of impertinent small boys daily infests Holmes' field, and besieges any one wishing to play with their importunate cries as long as he is on the ground. This has always been a source of annoyance, and has now grown to be a nuisance which ought to be stopped...