Word: systemizer
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...publish an article in another column, - "A Stitch in Time," - which we think presents very clearly certain facts worthy of attention. It has become a serious question how, under our elective system, a wise choice of studies can be made; we think the author of this article has offered one or two very sensible suggestions...
...been such a falling off in scholarship as this result would presuppose. The marks of the last two years, in almost every case that we have ever heard of, have been higher than those of the first two. How then can the result we have be explained? Is the system or theory on which Final Honors are given different from that on which Second-Year Honors are given? It certainly looks so. And if we examine the present case in detail, as far as an outsider is allowed to, we find that the facts are as follows...
...Honors in English, - a thing at present unknown, - these, together with six hours of English 2, and possibly another hour of English 7, would amply deserve such Final Honors - something more, at least, than Honorable Mention, which is all a student of English can hope for under the present system...
THAT fifteen thousand blue-books are annually consumed in the examinations of Harvard College is hardly an extravagant statement, and although the trouble and annoyance entailed by the blue-book system cannot be expressed in digits, it is none the less very great. Every one of these fifteen thousand books has to be bought by a student, carried to the recitation or a professor's room before a fixed date, looked over by the instructor, and arranged in proper alphabetical order in the examination-room. This certainly involves an amount of labor enormous in the aggregate, on the part...
...found out that the world was coming to an end in the 25th century; we were then hearing from the 18th century on earth; we therefore sent word to Minus Infinity that in seven hundred years would happen the destruction of the world. But they, forgetting to transpose our system of time to theirs, announced that the end of the world would happen near the end of the 19th century. An old woman who happened to be there carried the news back to earth, where it created some stir at the time...