Word: getting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...three-year degree is preferable to a reduction of the regular College course to that period, but there is another plan which is well worth considering. If the average entrance age could be lowered, there would be much less need of going through in three years in order to get into business at an early age. The average man who takes a degree at Harvard in the ordinary time and then goes to one of the professional schools is usually pretty well along in years before he begins his career, and often wishes that he had been able to get...
...good standing at the College office, who should be allowed to take part in athletics to their hearts' content. The graduate school rule is unfair as preventing diligent students from playing on the University teams and forcing men to stay in College for athletic purposes who would prefer to get some business training in their fourth year...
Regular spring work for all candidates for the University and Freshman track teams will begin today on Soldiers Field, and all men are expected to report regardless of weather. Every effort has been made during the past week to get the Stadium track into good condition; the straightaway is now in very fair shape, but the jumping pits are still a little heavy...
...beginning of a man's college career he is faced with a situation of great difficulty. If he wishes to take things with comparative ease,--and in most cases he does,--he decides on the regular four years' course and gets his degree in the approved fashion. If he is a good athlete he nearly always takes this course, chiefly through compulsion, because under the present objectionable rule he will not be allowed to play on the University teams if he is registered in one of the graduate departments. The other alternative open to the undergraduate is to go through...
...would seem distinctly undesirable to destroy the privilege of early graduation altogether, but we believe that it should be made considerably more difficult to get a degree in less than the ordinary time. If men were not allowed to anticipate courses or if the requirements for a three-year degree were increased, the unity of Harvard College would be decidedly strengthened...