Word: awarders
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...have appeared in the Advocate during the current academic year, written by an undergraduate not a member of the Board. The only stipulations are that the poem shall be in neither blank verse nor free verse. Every number of the Advocate will be judged, including numbers already issued. The award will be made on June 1. The judges will consist of Mr. Whitcomb and the Advocate Board...
...total of 308 students have been granted degrees by the Governing Boards of the University in the regular mid-year award, of whom more than a third were given a special degree "For Honorable Service in the War." This signifies that the man who holds it left College to enter the national service, and, returning after the war, completed three-quarters of the regular requirements for the College degree...
...University the annual income of the fund to be applied each year in one or more payments to such students in the course leading to the degree of Doctor of Law as may be designated by the Faculty of the Law School of Harvard University as entitled to the award...
Harvard's announcement that it will award degrees on the basis of "a general examination in the undergraduate's field of concentration" is a step forward in the field of American university education. To be sure, it is not an original step, for it inaugurates a policy already in force, practiced at Oxford and Cambridge. Nevertheless, Harvard is playing the pioneer on this side of the Atlantic...
...lectures. They were largely tests of memory, and were scattered through the four years of undergraduate life. As a system it was identical with that by which a Sunday school pupil who collects enough good-conduct checks can enjoy all the privileges of the June picnic. Hereafter Harvard will award its degrees, as Oxford and Cambridge do, on the basis of a "a general, final examination in the undergraduate's field of concentration." The questions will cover not only what has been imparted in the several courses, but the subject as a whole. Out side reading will form an important...