Word: systemizer
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...elsewhere there is a startling lack of humility. Each man, and particularly each woman, feels called upon to assume a prominence in proportion to his own estimation of his powers; but this of course does away with some of the most necessary and most fundamental laws of our social system. For if you wish to talk, you must have some one to talk to; but here they all talk. If you wish for sympathy, you must have some one to sympathize with you; here they all wish for sympathy. If you wish to be loved, you must have some...
...commencement marks of the seniors have been given out, and the general fineness of distinction and finesse of the marking system may be seen from the fact that second place is distinguished from third by about one-thousandth of a point, a difference which only a very subtle mind can comprehend, and only then when an earnest study of infinitesimals has been made...
...present system of theme writing, while possessing many undeniable advantages, inasmuch as the students are led thereby to do some original thinking and useful reading, is nevertheless apparently at fault in some not unimportant respects. A theme is written by the student on one of several subjects assigned by the instructor, handed in at the appointed time, and then returned to the student corrected by the instructor according to his own ideas of style, expression, et cetera. This way is well enough, provided we take the instructor in question as absolute authority in all questions arising in this subject...
Daniel Pratt was around the college yesterday selling the Saving Properties of the Solar System for ten cents...
...York Times claims that Cotton Mather invented the marking system, and says that it "soon after came into use at Harvard College, where the Mather name was potent, and thence spread to other colleges as fast as they were founded. Whatever the vicious or bad effects of the marking system - and it is generally acknowledged that it fosters more and worse kinds of meanness than any other educational or civil law to which young men can be subjected - it must be preserved for its founder's sake...