Word: credits
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...admission to the course leading to the A. B. degree the absolute requirement of German or French is dropped, but students are advised to offer themselves for examination upon one or both and receive credit for advanced work. The required work in Latin, Greek and Mathematics is decreased, but the student must select either French or German. During the second and third terms of the freshman year an elementary course is required in rhetoric and English composition. The electives for sophomore, junior and senior years are increased in number and the course in rhetoric, English literature, oratory and public speaking...
...take great pleasure in congratulating the freshman musical clubs on the success of their first entertainment. The concert was in every way a credit to the class and to the college, and the men are to be congratulated for the good beginning they have made. The leaders deserve much credit for the conscientious way in which they have trained the men, and the men themselves for the faithful way they have worked with their leaders. The result of this hard work showed itself in one of the most successful debuts ever made by freshman musical clubs...
...opinion that the enactment of a measure of this kind will result in greater efficiency in that branch of the public service represented by the government observatory, and in great credit to the scientific reputation of our country...
...parties. It may be said that our history has been made and our great advances have been secured through party organizations. Macaulay said that the experiment of William III, at party government was one of the great achievements of that great man and Mr. John Morley has given large credit to Sir Robert Walpole for the work he did in developing the English party system. These statements come from men who have carefully considered the party system, defects and all, and who believe that it has been on the whole a great benefit to the English people and an essential...
...amendments passed by the Intercollegiate Athletic Association were in every way to the interest of modern sport, and to the credit of Harvard as originator. In proposing the abolition of the tug-of-war and the substitution of the safety for the ordinary bicycle race. Harvard was prompted by the spirit which is governing all pure athletics of the present day. The mere trial of brute strength has ceased to be the main object of sport, and greater precautions are being taken to secure the safety of the competitors from unnecessary accidents. It was in this spirit of having athletics...