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Candidates for the positions of assistant manager of the Harvard University Register will report to A. K. Reading, Suite 1, 44 Brattle street, Wednesday and Friday evenings at 7.30 o'clock. All candidates will be paid a commission upon the work done. General qualification will be the test. Men in all departments of the University are eligible for election, though undergraduates will be given preference in case of close competition...
...mark of the year. There are many evils resulting from this system. It places a premium on irregular and desultory work, for students know that their good marks in the mid-year and final examinations will more than off-set poor marks in conferences and the few hour tests that may be held. The system is directly responsible for the very great amount of eleventh-hour "cramming" that exists in the University and makes easy the path of the professional tutor. In addition to encouraging irregular work and helping to maintain a pernicious tutoring system, the placing of such great...
...present in making up the grades in a course. Under such a system regular study would take the place of irregular and uncertain endeavor; more regularity in work would lessen the evils of professional tutoring; and the man who for any good reason did poorly in his final test could not claim that any injustice had been done, for marks would be based upon work done throughout a course. Under such a system there would be an increase of work for those who prepare examinations and correct blue-books, but this and other objections raised against the proposed plan seem...
...Carroll Cup race for single sculls will be held over the mile course in the Basin on Friday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. Entries may be made at the Newell Boat Club in blue books provided for the purpose. No man who has not taken a strength test or who is on probation, will be allowed to enter...
...very much. It certainly lacks a good deal of proving that athletes generally succeed better than scholars. Presumably the captains represent the very pick of all the teams. If all members of University teams and crews were compared with all Phi Beta Kappa men. it would give a fairer test...