Word: generalization
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Graduate School, calls attention to the vigorous growth of this branch of the University under his care. It is now felt that the migration of advanced students from one university to another should be promoted, and that, to this end, the only prescription as to residence, should be the general statute-not less than one year's residence for every ordinary degree. A Graduate Fellowship without stipend has been established as an experiment with the title of John Harvard Fellow. It is hoped thus to offer acceptable distinction to men of high scholarship who do not need pecuniary aid. Professor...
...student who is not in the examination room within five minutes after the hour appointed for the examination shall not be admitted without permission of the instructor or of the officer in general charge of the examinations...
...characteristic features of President Eliot's report compel the attention of the reader: First, his careful study of a general educational problem-the proper adjustment of the curricula of secondary schools; and secondly, his suggestion of many very interesting questions which come up in the administration of the University itself. One of the most interesting things which he discusses is the group of courses most largely taken by students in the College under the existing elective system. The President does not tell us just where he draws the line between the larger and smaller classes, but he gives...
...report touches many other matters of interest and importance, one of them being the encouragement of "migration" in graduate study. On the whole it is an important document and well worth careful reading in its bearings on matters of general, educational, as well as of local, University interests...
...President's report to the Board of Overseers for 1894-95, including the reports from the heads of the different departments of the University and the statement of the Treasurer, was published yesterday. In general the Report is the same in form as those of previous years, but each year the growth of the University necessitates the addition of more pages. The present Report contains thirty-five pages more than that of last year...