Word: honored
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Will you permit me as a graduate and M.A. from Harvard to state a few facts about myself in connection with the European war? I am aware indeed that even the word of honor of the holder of five university and college degrees and author of ten volumes of history will avail little against the leaden mass of ignorance and prejudice that weighs down our country. Permit me to say that I am the completes American both by descent and by bringing up, and that when I first went to Germany in 1884, after a year of the then wretched...
...annual meeting of the Cercle Francais will take place tonight in Grays 17 at 7.30. There will be the election of officers for the ensuing year followed by a reception in honor of Professor Dupriez and Professor de la Vallee Poussin, visiting lecturers from the University of Louyain. President Lowell, who has kindly consented also to be the guest of honor of the Cercle will express to the refugee professors the welcome of the University, and the two professors, having at the last meeting of the Executive Committee been elected honorary members of the Cercle, will re-receive the club...
...stray from his chosen field of concentration; it broadens his college course; it may open up new worlds for him. Taking up new courses, if only for experimentation, is advisable. The man who can do four courses satisfactorily can do five courses equally well. It is noteworthy that few honor men content themselves with a minimum number of courses...
...some cases they will find barriers to a free choice. In Economics 1b, for example, a practical course in accounting which many men want, some men are being denied admission because they have not attained honor grades in previous economics courses. As this course is primarily for graduates and undergraduates, this seems like an unwise restriction. One of the most valuable courses in College to a man who is going into business should not be closed to him because he did not make "B" or better in Economics...
...faculty of Yale College has voted that honor courses be established, beginning September, 1915. The purpose of these courses will be to provide the serious student with a larger opportunity for work in his chosen field; and in doing so, to bring him in closer personal contact with his instructors. But it is believed that the courses will benefit not only the men who elect them, but also the college itself. Yale as other colleges, renders her best service to the country in sending out highly trained men; accordingly the more thorough the training Yale undergraduates receive, the more effective...