Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...advanced standing in the College has lately increased; so that many degrees of Bachelor of Arts are now conferred upon persons who have not completed a residence of four years. This fact more than counterbalances the effect on the other side of the account of the short periods of minimum residence for the degrees of Master of Arts (one year) and Doctor of Philosophy (two years...
...show sound sense in the matter. The new rules will preclude the possibility of a man's coming here simply for athletics and when men are on athletic teams they will have to keep up their regular college work. This practically reduces the evils of our athletics to a minimum, and for the present these rules will be sufficient to keep the matter in check. The future will probably make greater restrictictions necessary even, perhaps, to the abolition of intercollegiate contests, but for the present such radical changes are unnecessary...
...canvas of Wesleyan University has shown that the maximum expenditure during a college year is $1000; the minimum, $175; the average less than $375. The supplement to the Alumni Record, recently published, shows that the total number of graduates is 1772, seventy-five per cent of whom are still living. 659 graduates have been in the ministry, 254 have been principals of schools 113 professors in colleges or professional schools, 48 college presidents, and 301 have practiced...
...plant of the CRIMSON has been very much enlarged this year and improvements have been made in various departments which have practically reduced the friction of the work to a minimum. In the first place, the papers, which have hitherto been printed in Cambridgeport, are now printed on the premises. This will enable us to get all the news, no matter how late it comes in and will also help us in having the papers promptly delivered. Our mailing to out-of-town subscribers will be done at 3.45 each morning, which will get the papers to their destination...
...soon. In other years, each crew has striven to be the last to leave the boat-house in order that the wait at the starting point might be as short as possible. Obviously it is an advantage to have the suspense and worry before the race reduced to a minimum. In consequence, each captain has been accustomed to tax his ingenuity to the utmost not to be the first to leave the wharf. The delay which results has always proved a cause of annoyance and inconvenience both to judges and spectators. Since the custom in itself is useless, we would...