Word: students
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...graduate of the Philadelphia Central High School, where he received a city scholarship from Philadelphia to go to Harvard. His College course has been of a general nature, although he intends to specialize in history and jurisprudence. During his College career he has been a first group student since his Sophomore year, held the Bartlett Scholarship for one year and a Price-Greenleaf for the last two years. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and has taken part in the Delta Upsilon club theatricals during the last two years...
...most courses the classes will meet five times a week during the six weeks of the term, and as a rule each student takes only one course; but there are certain combinations of two courses which may be taken together. The class-room periods vary from one to two hours in courses conducted by lectures or recitations, but are usually longer in drawing or laboratory courses...
...student shall belong to more than two university organizations in any one year which would require his absence from town in term time...
...College point of view is indicated by President Eliot's remarks in his Report for 1902-03 (pp. 40-41): "The breaking up of College work for the individual student by frequent absences to play games at a distance from Cambridge is an evil which ought to be checked. It is a greater evil than formerly, now that intercollegiate games take place all the year round--that is, in winter, as well as in spring and autumn...
...however, the business of the Athletic Committee to drive students into the class room or to devise methods to keep them at work; and it is hardly a valid criticism of the regulation, that a student is not thereby prevented from spending his leisure in some other way which may equally hinder him from study, or from embracing the many opportunities for other serious occupations. It might similarly be maintained that the restrictions of "probation" are useless because they do not prevent a student from spending his time in various other unchecked diversions. That rule implies chiefly that the University...