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...present examination system in American colleges is, we believe, daily proving itself more unsatisfactory alike to instructors and students. Educators generally are beginning to see that it is totally inadequate for its purposes, and almost as readily defeats as subserves its own ends. For the higher university education it is especially ill-adapted. This fact indeed has been long recognized, but the innate conservatism of college authorities, as well as a natural tendency to extend the methods of primary teaching even to collegiate instruction, has sufficed to insure it a lamentable prevalence in every stage of the college curriculum...
...Harvard's former position as the initiator of all wise and liberal reforms in college instruction has not yet been lost to her; it is plainly her duty in the premises, as the senior American university, senior in wisdom as in years, to solve the riddle of the examination system...
Many instructors, it is said, favor the abolition of the marking system. The truth is that the practice of assigning so-called marks is one productive of much evil, and wholly unworthy to be employed in an institution that claims to be a university. It is well that a man's work be reported, in some form, as good, fair or bad; but it is impossible for the ordinary mind to conceive how one student acquires eighty-three per cent. of a subject, and another eighty-four. It must require wonderful microscopy of discrimination to determine which student deserves...
...proposed system of elections has been partially adopted this term, thus allowing the juniors a choice between French and Latin, and also between mineralogy, practical chemistry and mathematics. The entire system will go into effect the first of next year, after which the higher mathematics will be optional, and a choice will be given between ancient and modern languages, mathematics and the sciences. This change will be a great improvement, and will, undoubtedly, meet with general favor...
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