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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...within a year of their degrees, we trust that no undue advantage of this privilege will be taken. The University was forced to recognize that many men who had satisfactorily completed the greater part of their college work would never be able to return for the rest. To withhold credit from these was manifestly unfair. At the same time in awarding these degrees "honoris causa" it was also forced to recognize that many men who could and would otherwise finish their college courses would now be entitled to their A.B.'s. Herein lies the abuse of the system...
Favors College Credit For Athletics...
...gymnasiums more or less compulsory. This would be absolutely necessary if physical training and athletics were to be put on the same footing as the work of other departments. Moreover if attendance upon gymnastics or athletics were compulsory, participation in these exercises should be required, and if required, credit should be given for the effort made, the work done, and the results attained. Otherwise attendance would be a farce. Here is the rub, and when the proposition is made, we are met with the query: "would you have gymnastics and athletics ranked on the same scale as Latin or Greek...
Plans for giving students academic credit for the time spent in military service have been evolved at both Princeton and Yale. At Yale the arrangement has been to give men returning from service a third of a year's credit for satisfactory military work. This decision will enable 1919 men who left college in June of 1918 to graduate with their regular class, and those who left the year before to graduate in June of 1920. A proportionate adjustment is being made for the class...
These two plans are essentially the same in that they offer a third of a year's credit for military work. They are primarily designed to round out the year of the men who are steadily returning to college...