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Illustrations might be multiplied ad infinitum, but they are obvious to every one interested in the subject. The present system leads directly to the selection of "soft electives," and favorite instructors known as "easy markers," - a royal road indeed to high college rank...
...student the credit due him for proficiency in any special study, and at the same time retain all the advantages heretofore derived from an average. It is a long step forward in the direction of doing greater justice to all, and is a necessary corollary to the elective system, and therefore it is earnestly to be hoped that it will be adopted...
...plan proposed by the Committee on Honors and Honorable Mention appears to be not only a great improvement upon the present scheme, but a necessary consequence of the elective system. So long as a prescribed curriculum throughout the college course was adhered to, an average mark may have been regarded as some evidence of conscientious work, more or less reliable as a criterion of scholarship. But under the elective system, which encourages special studies in the course marked out by the student for his career in life, he should receive from the college a proper recognition of his actual standing...
Surely there must be something radically wrong in a system which permits such injustice. That the evil exists every student well knows, however disinclined some may be, for very obvious reasons, to acknowledge or speak of it. Not only is the average system often unjust, but it is calculated, in the case of those students who strive only for marks, to work serious evil. The only way to avoid this result is courageously to sacrifice college rank to more solid advantages in after life...
Ranking upon an average is particularly liable to be unjust in a mixed system, partly prescribed and partly elective. Greek may be studied only because it is required for the entrance examination and during the Freshman year. The mark of the student who is indifferent to this study drags down his average, and as he intends to drop Greek as soon as possible, a greater proficiency would be of no advantage, so soon is the whole to be neglected and forgotten...