Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Tutoring in freshman Mathematics and Physics, maximum and minimum. By a tutor of four years experience. Geo. W. Sawin, '84, 27 Hollis...
Tutoring in Maximum and Minimum Freshman Mathematics by a tutor of long experience. C. A. Hobbs, 6 Little's Block...
...contact with "professionals." Whatever may be the extent of the evil in other colleges, at Yale it has not proved to be so great as to call for faculty interference, or even to excite apprehension. All the evils, real or imaginary, connected with ball playing, are reduced to a minimum when the students meet "professionals." They meet them simply for practice. Betting is, as a rule, precluded by the fact that the result is generally a forgone conclusion, and men bet on only doubtful issues. Off the field there is no more intercourse between the students and the "professionals" than...
Graduation in our sense of the word does not exist. After a man has heard lectures for a minimum of three years, he is allowed to apply for permission to "make an examination." It is seldom that any one tries the ordeal in a shorter time, six semesters being the ordinary university course. A friend of the writer, an American, however, went up for examination at the end of his third semester in Berlin, in Physics, and what is more, he passed the examination and received his degree of Ph. D. This case may be taken as showing what...
...must be learned, for nearly all notices on the bulletins are written in it. The choice of lectures is often a problem, but as it is permitted to hear the various courses for about two weeks without settling down upon any particular one, this is reduced to a minimum. The advice of an experienced friend is valuable, but a fixed purpose and the wisdom to avoid outside allurements is of still greater advantage. In applying for admittance it is by no means necessary to show an American degree, for no attention is paid to it, but the man who would...