Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...requirements for admission are much the same as those for Harvard, although French and German are taken as an equivalent for Greek. The course for the degree of Bachelor of Arts is expected to take four years, and is a combination of the curriculum, group and elective systems. Thus, while each student is required to pursue certain studies whose usefulness is acknowledged, she may as the same time by a proper choice of "groups" and "free electives" make out a general course embracing almost as great a variety of subjects as we have here at Harvard, or she may even...
...year to year will be necessary. It has ended the conflict between prescribed and elective courses in the collegiate department by the substitution of the "group system," which has been adopted at Bryn Mawr College. Almost every young man will find that one of these seven avenues to a Bachelor's degree will prevent him from wasting time, and he has more than sufficient choice of studies to make it certain that he is not asked to devote himself to an uncongenial task to a greater extent than is good for him. These seven courses go under the following names...
...special meeting of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, held yesterday, President E. Rockwood Hoar in the chair, it was voted to concur with the President and Fellows in conferring the degree of Bachelor of Sciences, cum laude, out of course, on Pierre Cheeseman Du Bois of the class of 1865; in the appointment of George Lincoln Walton, M. D., as special clinical instructor in the disease of the nervous system; James Jackson Putnam, M. D., instructor in the diseases of the nervous system; Frederick Eugene Rice, M. D., M. R. C. V. S., instructor in anatomy and materia...
...General Court no longer feast beneath the classic shades, they have given place to their fair daughters. Nor is it upon the "pecks of wheat" and "mellow apples" that the daughters feast. The "sober and God-fearing fashion" has passed into a round of jollity that shames the sober bachelor graduates who wander about aimlessly seeking they know not what, and territies papa and mamma in their watch-towers of observation with its desperate flirtation...
...looked about me with that degree of interest a bachelor apartment always excites. This one was large and pleasant; its business-like desk and well filled book case gave it a most studious air, tasteful little knick-knacks were scattered about, while two mirrors disposed of in conspicuous positions gave more evidence to my theory that men, espcially young men, are no more proof against vanity than women. The large cushioned window seat immediately attracted our attention, and thence we had a fine view of the campus and surrounding halls while we chatted...