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...awarding of scholarship distinctions and election to Phi Beta Kappa have often been severely criticized on the ground that there exists no just basis for determining relative rank. Because of the wide variations in the standards of marking on the part of different professors, two pieces of equally good work very often receive varying marks. In certain courses the Rank List will show that about 20 per cent of the members received grade A, whereas in others only 4 or 5 per cent are A men. How, then, are the records of men graded according of different standards...
There seems to be wide-spread feeling about the present policy of inflicting a serious penalty for "cutting" immediately before and after a vacation. The argument advanced is that it does not seem fair to apply the same restriction equally to those men who are faithful in keeping college engagements and those who "cut" consistently as much as possible. We do not advocate for a moment the system of a definite number of "cuts" which obtains in most other colleges: first, because it encourages that childish sense of obligation to use up all the "cuts" whether they are needed...
...Spalding '87, assistant professor of Music, has compiled statistics which are intended to show that academic instruction plays a considerable part in the development of musical ability. Taking Harvard, the pioneer in instruction of musical theory in America, as an example, Professor Spalding cites a number of musicians of wide reputation who graduated from the University. Francis Boott '31, who, at his death, left a fund of $10,000 for the establishment of the prize which now bears his name, was university known as a song writer. John Knowles Paine '69, the well-known composer, founded the department of Music...
...finally became president. For many years he has been president of the Liberty National Bank, the Bankers Trust Company and the Astor Trust Company all of New York City; and is a director in many important corporations throughout the country. He is a man of large influence, of exceedingly wide reading, cultivated tastes, and broad interests, and it would indeed be difficult to find a more appropriate name than his to attach to this new Professorship of Banking...
...sudden death of Professor Rotch Harvard has lost one of its most valuable and widely known teachers. Although not a graduate of the College, and connected with the University for only six years, he lent during that short period, the fruits of a wide experience and rare knowledge which had combined to win for him an international reputation. By his association with Harvard, the unusual honors conferred by the French and German governments reflected the highest credit on the University which he served. As the founder and director of the Blue Hill Observatory, he added enormously to a formerly meagre...