Word: less
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...expressed in the athletic discussion last spring. As compared with the list of 12 games which were formerly played, the schedule seems really too short; but the football authorities feel sure that the reduction will be no very serious handicap to the success of the team. There is one less game than last year, and Wednesday games in term-time have been done away with. This last change is a very desirable innovation from the Faculty point of view, as preventing absences from afternoon lectures. The only Wednesday game on the list is the day before the formal opening...
...suggested. We believe that an increase in the requirements for a 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...
This reduction of age might be brought about, as at Annapolis and West Point, by an entrance age limit, but a better method would be a change in the entrance examinations. If these were made more elementary in character but none the less thorough, a year at preparatory school could practically be transferred to College, increasing the number of courses required for the degree and graduating the average student a year younger than under the present system. The great question is whether or not this would make Freshmen too young for their responsibilities, for it is generally admitted that...
...most enjoyable of the four, and one who stays in one of the graduate schools finds himself in a decidedly unpleasant situation. He is usually interested in some branch of College activity and his studies are more difficult than in College. As a result of this, he pays less attention to his work than he should, and his other interest suffer in a like proportion. Before he is through, he is usually decidedly sorry that he did not remain an undergraduate for four years, but in spite of his example there are more three-year graduates than ever...
...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...