Word: getting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have been allotted rooms in the Yard for the year 1919-20 have not as yet signed contracts with the Bursar. The leaders of the groups should get the contracts at Randolph 7 today between 2 and 3.30 o'clock, or tomorrow between 7 and 9 o'clock and return them signed to the same place anytime before Saturday...
...under contract to work for fifty cents a day for three years were sent home at a cost of twenty-five thousand dollars to the Japanese company that imported the Chinese, it having been discovered, after protest had been made by Japanese labor, that the company had failed to get the consent of the governor of the district to bring in the Chinese. Japan, as against China, does not hesitate to exercise the right to exclude laborers not wanted...
...break down the colleges' qualitative standards not to force acceptance even of preparation of good quality in improper subjects. President Lowell points out that the existing "diversity of admission requirements and curricula" is great, and "gives the boy a chance to go to the institution where he will get the maximum education of which he is capable." The youth who simply cannot pass except in a course largely technical or agricultural will find some technical or agricultural institution ready to accept his preparation. But the great body of general colleges cannot surrender their standards. They can find better ways...
...editorial candidates will be under the supervision of the Editorial Chairman, and are expected to write and get into print a certain number of editorials during the competition in order to be successful. This work will also last nine weeks, ending with the board elections late...
...vote of the Faculty, two summer courses will be permitted to be counted toward the degree of A.B. or S.B., but no undergraduate will be permitted to obtain credit for more than one full course in each session. Thus it will not be possible to get credit for more than two full courses during the summer. Most of the courses offered will count as half courses for the degree of Bachelor of Arts Associate in Arts, and Bachelor of Sciences. Certain advanced courses will count toward the degree of Master of Arts...