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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Princeton has made a new departure in her mode of conferring the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Literature. The applicant for said dedrees must be a Bachelor of Arts from some approved college or university, and must pursue a special course of study in his department for two years, one year of which period shall be in Princeton, or a course of three years with residence outside of Princeton. The course in either case shall be under the supervision of the faculty. At his application, the candidate will be subjected to a preliminary examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Letter. | 1/25/1887 | See Source »

...other half of the said residue shall be appropriated in such manner as said president and fellows shall deem expedient to reduce the general expenses necessarily incurred by undergraduates of the college in pursuing the studies required to obtain the degree of bachelor of arts, who are not of themselves or with the aid of their parents of sufficient pecuniary ability to pay for the same. In the disposition of this part of said income, it is the intention of the testator to furnish aid to worthy young men who are not able to obtain the means of paying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Greenleaf's Bequest Now One Million. | 12/11/1886 | See Source »

...penalty for dishonesty in examination has been withdrawn from the rules, pending probably the invention of some more terrible scheme. Under the "Degree of Bachelor of Arts," rule 26 reads: "above group D." This is changed from "one half of the total maximum." In rule 27, grade A is substituted for 90 per cent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Regulations by the Faculty. | 11/24/1886 | See Source »

...inst., which purports to be an account of my wedding. I beg leave to state that the above event is entirely unknown to me and single blessedness I still enjoy. By inserting the above, you will correct an error and materially aid the chances of one still a bachelor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 11/24/1886 | See Source »

...father and some brothers and sisters. With some money, which his father's will had given him, he entered a student, at Emmanuel in 1627, and evidently, from the position that he took there, the butcher's money achieved for him a certain social advantage. He took his bachelor's degree in 1631 and his master's in 1634, and the signatures which he left on each of these occasions on the records of the University and that solitary volume of the library, which dying he left to the college here, are the only objects in existence which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Gift of the Old Cambridge to the New. | 11/7/1886 | See Source »

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