Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...proposition to reduce the number of courses necessary for the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Harvard has come up again with more prominence than ever. At the meeting yesterday, the Overseers considered the reports of both the majority and the minority of the Faculty, concerning the change. It seems that a majority of this body advocate the shorter course...
...first and strongest objection to the plan is, that we believe that it will inevitably lower the standard of our college education and degrade the bachelor's degree. Whether the proposed reduction be great or small, the same momentous principle is involved. The smallest reduction would be a step backwards and would reverse the best traditions of the college and the fixed policy of the past thirty years. This period has witnessed a slow but steady raising of the standard of the degree as a result of a radical improvement in the whole system of teaching. We can look back...
...Hart, and by Messrs. W. K. Blodgett, '78, H. McK. Landon, '92, E. B. Hunt, '78, H. L. Wheeler, '81, L. Pulsifer, '90, G. R. Pulsifer, '88, J. Prentiss, '84, and others. Professors James and Wendell discussed as length the proposed reduction of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Harvard College. Professor James showed that men begin their professional training earlier throughout the Continent than in America. In England men graduate at about the same age as in America. There, however, most members of the more highly educated classes are rich, here they are poor...
...When a student enters college there shall be placed to his credit towards satisfying the requirements for the degree of bachelor of arts, (1) any advanced studies on which he has passed in his admission examination beyond the number required for admission, and (2) any other college studies which he has anticipated...
That a senior intending to enter the medical school and to take the full four-years'course therein may, under proper supervision, include in the requirements for the degree of bachelor of arts the courses of physology and anatomy required in the first year of the medical school, each of said courses to count as one full elective course...