Word: bachelor
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...School of Architecture of Harvard University has been a graduate school since 1906, and therefore the regular students, candidates for the degree of Master in Architecture, must have a bachelor's degree from a college or technical school of recognized standard. The change from undergraduate to graduate instruction was made because of the feeling in the profession that as many architects as possible should have a liberal cultural training preceding their professional studies. Harvard was the first school established on this graduate basis, and it has been the only one until recently. Some other architectural schools have recognized the same...
...these men a course in third-year Latin under the same general principle as English F; a course which would not count for a degree but which would give students a chance to remove the handicap of previous ignorance of the scope of examinations. The requirements for a Bachelor of Arts degree should emphatically not be lowcred. However, the student who is willing to put forth honest effort, should be given by the college in opportunity of making up this deficiency...
...departments of study in the School are as follows: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electric Communication Engineering, Civil Engineering, Sanitary and Municipal Engineering, Sanitary Chemistry, Mining, Metallurgy, and Industrial Chemistry. In each of these departments four-year undergraduate programs are offered which lead to the degree of Bachelor of Science, and also graduate study and research leading to the higher degree of Master of Science (or an equivalent degree), or the degree of Doctor of Science...
More particularly with respect to the Harvard Law School, the equipment and courses at the school are fully described in the annual catalogue. In order to receive the degree of Bachelor of Laws the student must have attained the age of twenty-one years, have put in three years of residence at the school and successfully passed the examinations on the entire course of three years. There are a number of scholarship and loan funds from which assistance is furnished to deserving students. While the school draws more students from Harvard College than from any other institution, the percentage does...
...present day students in the University understand the extent or the character of the service rendered to the University by John Harvard. This Englishman set sail for Massachusetts in 1637, after he had gained the titles of "Bachelor" and "Master" in Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England. At once he settled near Boston in a district known at that time as Charlestowne and immediately became so interested in the college which had been established at Newtowne in the previous year by order of the General Court that he donated half of his estate, $3900, a large sum in those days...