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...have often thought that it ought to be brought before the College public through one of the papers. Still, it hardly seemed sufficiently important to call for an article; but I notice that in your last two issues you have established a department of "Correspondence," and here, I think, is the suitable place to make my complaint...
...custom of marking up the Library books. I very seldom take out a book but I find it defaced by some would-be commentator; such highly aesthetic notes as "Good," "Admirable," "This is fine," are met on almost every page. The only historical precedent for such action I can think of is the appropriation by the schoolmen of the manuscripts of the classical authors for their own worthless scribblings. But then the schoolmen lived at a time when parchment was scarce and dear; now, when stationery is so cheap, the impropriety of any such mediaeval practice is too apparent...
...argument seems to me insuperable, and absolutely to condemn the marking-system above mentioned. The introduction of hour-examinations is an incomplete step toward justice. It is only by marking on recitations, also, that perfect justice is done us. This system of frequent marking eliminates variable elements, and I think it would also eliminate many of the inherent evils of the partial systems, while uniting their advantages. And if this or any other is the only really right system, it ought not to be left to individual discretion to choose any of several other methods, but there should...
...attained we invite every one to express his view, and we promise to give all sides a fair hearing. Those who disagree with the conclusions or the processes of reasoning adopted by any of our correspondents this week cannot do better than to tell us all what they think. Then from many plans we may select the best, and the crimson next summer may possibly come up ahead of the blue...
...retained at the holder's option, it is calmly relinquished, and the ex-varsity man rests complacently on his honors; but a place on the crews which we have turned out for the past four years is no such honor as these men seem to think they have made...