Word: ages
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...Robertson G. Hunter, State Actuary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, will deliver the sixth of a series of special lectures arranged by the Faculty of the Graduate School of Business Administration on "Savings Bank Insurance and Old Age Pensions" in Emerson A this evening at 8 o'clock. This lecture will be open to members of the University only...
...increase in the requirements for a degree. IF such a step were taken, we believe that all the good results desired by him would be brought about. A greater amount of work would be necessary than at present; the Senior class would be unified; and the average age at graduation would be lowered with the realization of the necessity of getting into business at an early age. It should not be made impossible to be graduated in three yours, for that would be decidedly unfair to men of humble means, but the three-years degree should be made so difficult...
...various methods of obviating the difficulty have been suggested. We believe that an increase in the requirements for a three-year degree is preferable to a reduction of the regular College course to that period, but there is another plan which is well worth considering. If the average entrance age could be lowered, there would be much less need of going through in three years in order to get into business at an early age. The average man who takes a degree at Harvard in the ordinary time and then goes to one of the professional schools is usually pretty...
This reduction of age might be brought about, as at Annapolis and West Point, by an entrance age limit, but a better method would be a change in the entrance examinations. If these were made more elementary in character but none the less thorough, a year at preparatory school could practically be transferred to College, increasing the number of courses required for the degree and graduating the average student a year younger than under the present system. The great question is whether or not this would make Freshmen too young for their responsibilities, for it is generally admitted that...
...subjects mentioned in this announcement; but any other subject chosen must first be approved by the committee. Under the first head the following subjects are suggested primarily for those who have had an academic training; but possession of a degree is not required of a contestant, nor is any age limit...