Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Petitions relating to absence from college exercises must be presented within one week after the absence to which they refer. Such petitions must contain the student's explicit statement that the absence in question was unavoidable for a reason clearly and fully set forth...
...changes which have been made in the requirements for admission, and the large number of studies which have been made elective for the freshman year, necessitate of course radical changes in the rules relating to prescribed studies. Emphasis is put upon the fact that a student can take as many extra courses as he can profitably pursue. This is quite in contrast to the very illiberal policy which is in vogue at some colleges where the students are forbidden to take any extra courses...
...student who does not attain one half of the maximum mark for the entire work of one year, is held to have failed in the work of that year...
...student who has failed in any course of prescribed study must pass the examinations of that course in some subsequent year. A student who has failed in an elective study may make up the deficiency by taking in some subsequent year the same or any equivalent elective study in addition to those required...
...gross misrepresentation" of the article in question. It has never been the custom for a non-sectarian college newspaper man to read between the lines even in "his excitement." Nor is "his anger" aroused at a statement which bears upon its face its utter falsity. Any Harvard student who is willing to subscribe to a declaration that his college is a hot-bed of incipient nihilism, scepticism, "lying," and irreligion can do so, but it should be upon his own authority, and his statement ought to carry with it only the weight of that authority. The writer of the editorial...