Word: spent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Captain Bullard and Mr. Mumford spent most of yesterday afternoon in measuring the distance spaced by the stern four. When this work was done, the men rowed in the following order: Stroke, Goodrich; 7, Hollister, Jennings; 6, Sprague; 5, Perkins, Bullard; 4, Ames, Hollister; 3 Moulton, Perkins; 2, Stillman; bow, Hayes, Moulton...
...present age of graduation is too far advanced, the time required for securing the degree being unnecessarilly long.- (a) For those intending to study for the learned professions.- (b) For those intending to enter business.- (x) The college graduate is now too much handicapped by the four years spent at college in securing a general education.- (c) For those who intend to enter literary or intellectual pursuits.- (x) The degree of A. M. is now almost necessary for those intending to become teachers, specialists, etc.- (d) This difficulty cannot be sufficiently obviated by lowering the age of entering college...
...reduces the time spent at college without lowering the standard or value of the A. B. degree.- (a) Though the number of courses required will be lowered the standard of the remaining courses will be raised.- (1) The number of courses required for the A. B. degree has been steadily reduced from twenty-three in 1860 to the present number.- (2) The standard and value of the degree has notwithstanding steadily increased...
...Hodges was born in Bridgewater, in 1827. He entered Harvard with the class of 1847, and after graduation entered the Medical School. After taking his degree of M. D., in 1850, he spent two years in Europe studying anatomy and surgery at Paris and obstetrics at Dublin. He began practice in Boston in 1853. In 1855 he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy at the Medical School and adjunct professor of surgery in 1866. From 1862 to 1883 he served as surgeon in the Massachusetts General Hospital, and during the war was assistant to the surgeon-general of Massachusetts...
...Scientific School has gained 10 per cent in numbers, and much more in the porportion of regular to special students. $20,000 have been spent in improving the departments of Engineering and Architecture chiefly for apparatus. A revision of admission requirements is a probability for the near future...