Word: bachelors
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Sanford Henry Eisner Freund, of the Law School, lives in Cambridge and prepared for College at Andover. He completed his course for Bachelor of Arts in three years and then entered the Law School. He was the first Phi Beta Kappa man from the class of 1901 and was recording secretary of the society. He graduated summa cum laude by two counts, having received fifteen A's and also Highest Final Honors in history. In 1901 he had a Commencement Part. he is an editor of the Law review and an assistant in English 22, The subject of his part...
...hitherto been possible for graduates of other colleges who fail in the Graduate School to obtain the degree of A.M. at the end of the year, to take instead the A.B. or S.B. By the new rule the Bachelor's degree will not be conferred in the Graduates School, but graduate students desiring to obtain the degree may not later than the Christmas recess withdraw from the Graduate School, and enrol in the Colleges, receiving the Bachelor's degree with the regular graduating class...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences has recently made certain changes in the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, according to which graduates of colleges and scientific schools of good standing will be hereafter admitted to the degree on substantially the same conditions as Harvard Bachelors of Arts. The practice that has hitherto prevailed of rating candidates from other colleges in terms of the Harvard degree of Bachelor of Arts will be abandoned...
...following candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1903, having attained a grade of A or B in at least nine courses--or their equivalent--and having attained also a grade of C or higher in as many courses as they are required to pursue for admission, with-out deficiency, to the Senior Class, are provisionally entitled to degrees with distinction and to Commencement Parts...
...error on which the three-year idea is based seems to be that the degree of Bachelor of Arts simply denotes that its holder has done the work of seventeen courses. If that were true, the three-year plan would have no opponents. What the degree has hitherto meant, however, is that its holder, if he is a "competent" man, has lived for four years an academic life, in which he has pursued liberal studies with some success, in which he has had an opportunity to partake in one or more of the College activities, and in which...