Word: deferred
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...highly commended. There are many students in college who are unable or unwilling to give the amount of time required by any of the other French courses, and who do not wish to attempt to acquire a thorough knowledge of the language at Harvard, but rather choose to defer its completer acquisition to a later time. But many of these find it necessary in their other courses to obtain a working knowledge of French and ability to translate ordinary passages at sight. For the requirements of such, French V. is especially well suited. Unlike all the other French courses...
...arguments advanced in your editorial. But I would ask you to urge the proposed change, and endeavor to arouse the other college papers to a perception of the good that must arise from such a measure. Owing to a large amount of regular work, men are often compelled to defer the removal of conditions until the senior year, at which time, if a failure occurs, the unfortunate person is thrown into a most uncomfortable position. As you have hinted, the expense attendant upon extra examinations might be some hindrance to the project, but I am sure that any one would...
...policy of Johns Hopkins University in the matter of buildings and equipments has been from the first, as is stated in its annual register, "to defer the formation of museums, and the purchase of collections for remote and general purposes, and the reconstruction of costly buildings." It is partly in consequence of this policy and of a strenuous striving to apply its generous funds to the best apparent uses that institution has been able in so short a time to rank among the very first of American universities. It has been visibly the case with her that men and quality...
...makes up his order off the class list, the price will be $3.00 per doz, or fifteen cents each, but the pictures will not be delivered before June 10. The most common practice seems to be to give a limited order for present uses, and to defer the general claims of "exchanges" until June...