Word: students
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard is to win this year the interest which has been so great in former years should not be allowed to flag, especially when the other universities are making unusual efforts to defeat her. Thus far the interest of the students, we think, has not been as great as it should have been. The reputation of Harvard in debate is a splendid one. She can show an absolutely unbroken record of victories, and every student in the University should feel a personal interest in keeping this record as clear...
...Birtwell's appointment is doubtless a recognition of the excellent work of the Student Volunteer Committee during the past year...
...opportunity of hearing so distinguished an economist as General Walker is one which no student can well afford to lose. Especially is this true when the subject for discussion in the lectures is a question which is now of the greatest importance to this country...
...France, on the contrary, the examinations coming first, each step is punctuated, the student receiving independent credits for every portion of his work. If he acquits himself in one branch only he still has his certificat, while three, as has been explained, give him the licence. If interrupted in his work, before securing a degree, he can withdraw with honorable credentials for at least that portion of the work which he has accomplished...
...distinctly new features introduced by the new decree are the following: (1) wider selection of studies; (2) liberty to migrate from one university centre to another; (3) the privilege of taking examinations either successively or en bloc, just as the student wishes...