Word: coursese
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Perhaps no similar institution offers as many prizes to encourage literary and scholarly activity as does the University. But in the case of the Bowdoin Prizes, only are they competed for in anything like adequate numbers. Last year sixty-seven men submitted essays for these. Yet even this number is...
Whenever the college man is attacked on intellectual grounds his policy should undoubtedly be to admit everything. In comparison with the professors and the cultivated magazine writers who pen the indictments he can only feel his youth and lack of wisdom. Any proposal, therefore, for the elimination of "snaps", for...
The present elective system avoids this snag. A man is forced to take cultural courses, but he may choose their precise nature. An elevation of standards and the elimination of snaps,--not less freedom,--are desirable.
Make-up and final examinations in the following courses will be held in Lower Massachusetts this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. According to the usual regulations the examinations will not extend over three hours. No student is permitted to take any books or papers into the examination room except by...
Another question of a diametrically opposite tendency presents itself no less forcibly: why should not the professional study accompany the getting of an acquaintance with many other subjects, so that both go along together, the professional training supplying the backbone of the college curriculum? This is a much more subtle...