Word: non-honors
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...those who are just scraping through, the institutions of probation and attendance at classes have at least some justification for existence, but forbidding cuts at vacation time when they are freely allowed even to the non-honor student at other times comes under the head of nuisance legislation. No doubt the idea behind this system is that it serves to reenforce the attractiveness of the Dean's List by granting material concessions to honor men. But the abolition of compulsory attendance has rendered even this feeble encouragement completely obsolete. Whatever may be the attitude next year of the authorities toward...
...apart from these general criticisms, there is the mater of organization, upon which you have expended more praise than upon almost any other aspect of Harvard University existence. Why are weekly quizzes given to the non-honor men for almost the whole length of the year? And, worse, why must those men who have shown themselves capable of honor work in the self-vaunted most difficult undergraduate course be afflicted with regular bi-weekly hour exams? The excess study required by the average man in the course over that generally given with a full course is proverbial; the conference...
...case of candidates for honors taking a thesis course, their course credit shall be computed on the basis of the highest five and a half instead of the highest six and a half courses. Each candidate for honors shall take an examination in only one instead of two of the present correlation fields. Two new correlation subjects have been added and two old correlation subjects were dropped. The subjects added are, "European Economic History to 1750" and "European Economic History since 1750". Those dropped are, "Economic History of Western Europe" and History of Commerce". Non-honor candidates will...
...faculty have desired that required these by non-honor men cannot be substituted for forensics, that is, they have passed the extroadinary rule that candidates for honors, simply because they are such, no matter whether they take the honor examinations or are awarded honors, shall be ret red from one twenty-first part of this year's work. Now the question is. "Have or have not the less favored non-honor men the right to demand that this rule shall be carried out according to the dictates of common sense and the spirit of this university?" It is currently reported...