Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tomorrow is the last day on which student in Harvard College and the Engineering School may drop, without liability for the additional charge, additional courses of study that begin in the second half-year...
...might properly be termed the 'danger stage.' It usually comes after the first few days; the candidate has worked hard with small success, he is jostled and croweded by other candidates who always seem to have some unwonted advantage over him. It is during this period that most candidates drop out; those who persist despite its disappointments seldom fall to achieve their goal. Then a few weeks later comes what might he called the 'tried stage.' The candidate passes through a period of physical and mental exhaustion, and again he is liable to become discouraged though not nearly so prone...
...Harvard, which is in Massachusetts, someone has thought of a new idea. It must have been a student." So runs a despatch, announcing the introduction of a system that allows students to drop in at classes whenever and wherever they please. Thinking it over, our own Liberal Arts School might see something in the idea, even if it does come from Harvard. There are at Penn State several men to whom students would be no means loathe to listen, and it is not beyond reason that these professors will welcome them. Aside from visits by self-declared eminents...
...authority on administrative law and municipal government. Dr. Goodnow is the university's third chief. Under his administration, Johns Hopkins last year (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926) returned to its original plan of concentration on advanced studies. It will drop the first two years of college work as soon as funds are found to meet the loss in tuition fees...
...become complete. Yet the sciences of a necessity from their innate nature place difficulties in the way of their inclusion in a column such as the Student Vagabond. The Vagabond is designed to be of use to those who, having their schedule of courses complete, wish to drop in occasionally on lectures the subjects of which happen to catch their interest. It is a matter of comparative case to find subjects in History, the Fine Arts or Literature which may be listened to with profit and pleasure by those having only a very general background of knowledge of the subject...