Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...These special examinations are held for students, under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who expect to attend the Fourth Officers' Training Schools or Military Camps opening before the end of the academic year. Also, for students who expect to be called to some other form of national service before the end of the current academic year, and have filed application at the College Office to take these examinations...
...Class B, may go into intensive training immediately to make up the needed time. A telegram from Washington yesterday announced the War Department's approbation of the plan, and an officer is now on the way from Camp Devens to take charge of the training of this special unit of Military Science...
...College Office is arranging to reduce to a minimum the number of conflicts which may arise between the coming special final examinations and the various athletic activities scheduled for the week of May 4 to 11 inclusive...
...announcement that the College Office will give special finals beginning next Saturday for the men going to the Fourth O. T. C. and the June under-age camp will naturally not bring forth a unanimous chorus of jubilation from those who will have to take them. They would obviously prefer to vanish from Cambridge without going through the tortures of these tests. It would not be possible nor right, however, for the Office to distribute credit for the year broadcast to such a large number of men without examining them as long as our scheme of education is based...
...attitude of the College Office is one which makes allowances for certain special and exceptional cases. Particular arrangements are being made in co-operation with the military and athletic authorities so that men going to Wakefield or playing in Saturday games may be especially taken care of. In fact, it is planned to have proctors accompany the Freshman teams to Andover. It will not be easy to take examinations under these conditions, but the trouble the Office is going to in order to smooth the way of these individuals shows the high importance with which the tests are regarded...