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...most prominent sleepers have been caught under the new rule. Some say that the Dean's office is responsible--others, the Regent; while there are not wanting those who maintain that the whole thing is propaganda fabricated by Local .001 of the United Sisterhood of College Goodies to shorten their hours of labor by encouraging early rising. Fear is expressed that unless the union is broken at once, the emboldened "goodies" will drag us from our beds at earlier and earlier hours, until even the seven o'clock bell will no more disturb our slumbers...
...about three years devoted entirely to professional study to obtain the degree of Master in Architecture. Men going through Harvard College and planning to enter the school later, and usually advised to take some preparatory professional work which counts for the A. B. degree, and such men thereby can shorten the time in the school to about two years. Men who have a bachelor's degree in Architecture from other technical schools can usually obtain the master's degree in from one to two years. In all of these cases, however, the time required is not a fixed number...
That the Obregon government is informally sounding the Republican leaders rather than the outgoing government is only common sense in the circumstances. But the situation is embarrassing and illustrates again the need for a constitutional amendment which shall shorten the period between election and inauguration. In 1860 that weakness nearly destroyed the union, for it permitted traitors in the government to use the government's resources to build up the strength of the secessionists. In 1916, if Mr. Hughes had won, we should have had a very serious situation, with our policy as to Germany suspended for four months...
Under favorable conditions the student is thus able to anticipate and thereby shorten part of the inevitable initiation period which follows graduation...
...their character as regards the College, but they were also revolutionary in the general field of education at that time. The development of the elective system gradually displaced an almost completely prescribed curriculum. And the three year course for the A. B. degree was introduced at his direction to shorten the college period for those who found the preparation for professional schools too long. That these radical changes were timely is conclusively shown by statistics, for in 1869, the year in which he became President, a total of two hundred and seventy-five degrees were given by the University, while...