Word: shortening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reforms at Columbia only seem to demonstrate the fact that the call of the undergraduates for a chance to shorten the course of collegiate study is being rapidly recognized. The efforts of Harvard in that direction have been noticed, and there can be no doubt that the system of study at all the American colleges will be revised soon. Columbia hopes to accomplish the desired end in a similar manner. To allow seniors to take professional courses, which also count for the degree of A. B., as Columbia has just done, is a step which sooner or later will...
This action is merely following in the footsteps of the changes just adopted at Harvard and will work toward the same end, which is to shorten the time necessary for a college and professional education. Columbia considers that their method is a better way of getting at the matter than the Harvard method...
...first year of the Law School ought to be thrown open to the seniors, at least, in the academic department, and ought to be counted for an A. B. degree. A great many men wish to finish their college and law education in less than seven years, and could shorten their studies best by combining professional with general courses in their senior year. Such a plan would satisfy many arguments that are now being urged for shortening the college course to three years. It would also carry to a greater extent the idea suggested by the Advocate and would give...