THE MARKING SYSTEM.

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In the communication published a few days ago, "Inquirer" has apparently not understood the way in which the class system of marking would most naturally be applied. He seems to think that the instructor would first assign marks according to the percentage scale, and then reduce them to the terms of the class system. Now, in in fact, whatever reference there is to percentage is merely for the student's convenience in estimating the value of his mark. The instructor would naturally consider, not whether a book deserved eighty-four or eighty-six, but whether it ought to be marked "good," or excellent." It is quite as likely that a book marked excellent would receive but eighty-four, if marks were assigned in percentage, as that the case suggested by "Inquirer" should occur. The chances that two instructors would differ on the question of marking a giving book "good" or "excellent," are considerably less than the probability that they would differ in regard to the propriety of giving eighty-four or eighty-six.

H., '86.