Word: preferment
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...tennis matches are scheduled for today. Those scheduled for yesterday, the third round of the singles and the first round of the doubles tournaments, will be played on Monday afternoon, though if the individual contestants prefer, they may be played at any previous time...
...will be asked to give one hour in either week on any day they prefer. To help the work of the committee in starting the campaign, members of the University who are interested are requested to send their names, together with any preferences for special fields of service, to Grays 47 before they leave College for the summer. R. H. SMITH...
...bring earlier into their professions the best trained young men." These results would undoubtedly be well worth accomplishing, but the benefit and pleasure to be derived from spending four years in Harvard College are not things, to be lightly dispensed with. In behalf of the many men who prefer the present system in spite of its defects, we venture to disagree with the President and advocate the continuance of the ordinary four-year residence, accompanied by an increase in the requirements for a degree. IF such a step were taken, we believe that all the good results desired...
...good standing at the College office, who should be allowed to take part in athletics to their hearts' content. The graduate school rule is unfair as preventing diligent students from playing on the University teams and forcing men to stay in College for athletic purposes who would prefer to get some business training in their fourth year...
...registered in one of the graduate departments. The other alternative open to the undergraduate is to go through in three years. This is really no very difficult task and it is often done by men who are unable to stay four years for financial reasons or who prefer to get some business training in their fourth year. A man who goes into business immediately loses all the pleasures of the Senior year, usually the 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...