Word: bachelor
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...honest expression of opposition to his opinion. That such opposition exists in the minds of a number of those undergraduates who have at all considered the matter, seems to me certain. It should not be forgotten that when the President says that competent men ought to attain the bachelor's degree in three years, most parents (who have a disinclination to consider their sons incompetent) will expect their boys to take this opportunity. Unless, therefore, it becomes evident that among the undergraduates, who are in a favorable position to observe the effects of the three-year system, there is considerable...
President Eliot's annual report, resently made public,--in addition to his discussion of the requirements to be maintained for a bachelor's degree, of the plan of athletics in the University life and of other general questions--contains the reports of the different departments of the University and the President's comments on the salient points suggested by them. These form an interesting commentary on the departments reviewed...
...professional schools; and President Butler of Columbia University in his recently published report, while maintaining that professional study should be based upon a sound foundation of liberal culture has asserted that the first two years of a good college course furnished that foundation, and should earn the bachelor's degree. Harvard's policy is now emphatically declared by President Eliot to be one of determined support to the requirement of a bachelor's degree, or its equivalent, for admission to the professional schools, as now in force in the departments of theology, law and medicine at Harvard...
...Bachelor Bigotries." Commercial Publishing Company...
...better plan would seem to be one by which the college should offer a two and a four years' course, the former to be included in the latter. At the end of the two years' course the bachelor's degree would be awarded-at the end of the four years' course the master's degree. This suggestion seems less revolutionary when it is remembered that since 1860 the standard of requirements for the degree of A.B. has risen steadily, and that the age of its recipients has advanced about two years. President Butler adds: "By taking this step we should...