Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whose subject is "The Tenure of Land." In the list of students there is not much change from last year, save in the larger space given to freshmen and special students. The number of students entering from other colleges is gratifyingly large. A student from Harpoot, Armenia, and a bachelor of laws from Cambridge University, England, appears among the specials. The summary shows, in exact numbers, 203 seniors, 209 juniors, 207 sophomores, 263 freshmen and 46 specials, a total of 928 in the college proper. In the list of courses a closer and more compact arrangement and smaller type makes...
...students, eight were in their third year; eighteen were in their second year; and twelve were in the first. Ten were pursuing a course of study covering four years, and corresponding to that pursued by the candidates for the candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Harvard College. The others were taking from one to four special courses of study each...
There is no good reason why a graduate of Harvard, or, in fact any other college, should always feel compelled to go elsewhere for purposes of study after he has obtained his bachelor's degree. Of course we can understand the advantages of going abroad, where the elements of travel and living in a foreign land are often a great inducement to men. But there certainly is no reason for men to leave Harvard and go to Johns Hopkins. Harvard has as complete a graduate course as any college in the country. Here are gathered together men who have become...
...reckless newspaper correspondents, would be the means of decreasing the number of applicants for admission this fall. This would doubtless have been the case had it not been for the foresight of the trustees and faculty. A new course of study was prepared for candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, made up of prescribed electives and optional studies, and substituted for the old prescribed course. The three vacancies in the corps of instructors were filled by the selection of young and active men, well qualified for their positions. A full account of all the changes was made public...
...Dartmouth curriculum has just been thoroughly revised, and as now arranged is thus described: The course of study to be pursued by candidates for the degree of bachelor of arts is made up of prescribed and elective studies, in addition to which certain optional studies are provided for in senior year. Latin-scientific students, or candidates for the degree of bachelor of letters, pursue the same studies, except in the prescribed courses in Greek, in place of which they pursue certain courses specified in the accompanying schemes. In freshman, sophomore and junior years, attendance is required at fifteen exercises...