Word: entering
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fact worthy of note, in these days when the need for college graduates in our industrial life is so often emphasized, that about a fourth of the men in each class that is graduated from Harvard College enter upon a business career. For these men, as well as for the other members of the class, it seems to us that it would be a good plan to invite some man prominent in industry to speak to the Seniors on the demands of the business world on college men today--to tell them what they can do by their own power...
...September 4. No entrance examinations are required. The courses in surveying, however, require a knowledge of trigonometry. All courses may be counted towards the degree of A.B. or S. B. Non-members of the University will be given a certificate; and to such of these students as may subsequently enter the University in regular standing, proper credit will be given. The charges to members of the University for the following courses, which will be given, are as follows: Engineering 4a, Plane Surveying, a full course beginning on June 20 and continuing six weeks, $55; Engineering 4d, Railroad Surveying, a full...
...meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs Saturday, is in line with the modern conception of the relation of a college training to practical life. Although a college education is generally admitted to be a valuable asset in all walks of life, it does not generally fit a man to enter at once into business. The college graduate who enters upon a business career at the foot finds himself passed at the beginning by men whose common school education has been supplemented by several years of practical experience. As the college man gains this experience, however, his value to his employers...
...degree for admission to the Law and Medical Schools, and by the recent founding of a Graduate Scientific School. Is there any reason why a college education, which is now considered preparatory for those taking up professions, should be final for the large proportion of men who enter the business world? It may be objected that no matter how excellent the theoretical training of a graduate business school might be, it would not be equivalent to contact with actual business conditions. It is equally true that no lawyer or doctor is fitted to undertake difficult cases immediately upon receiving...
...seats on the floor will be reserved for the members of the University until 7.25 o'clock. Students of the University will enter at the south side door, and the officers of the University and their families at the north side door...