Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DURING the past College year the University lecturers have been represented by only one gentleman, Mr. Perkins. The number might be increased with much benefit to the students, and it seems to us that a course on law would be as instructive and useful as on any subject, a knowledge of which is requisite for general culture. At Dartmouth there is a course of lectures on law delivered to the academic students. They do not go into the subject deeply, but enough to read the frequent law terms which occur in articles, newspapers, and books with more intelligence...
...know of no lectures on this subject ever having been delivered here to undergraduates in the academic course, and we would suggest that such a subject be considered...
...importance, and certainly could not fail to increase in interest as years go by. Whether or not any move has been made toward realizing Mr. Osgood's idea we cannot say; but we feel that no time is to be lost in taking a more general action on the subject. If the Memorial Building when completed is to afford the facilities, it would seem that no better place could be chosen for locating such a collection. The College is already in possession of many most interesting relics, some of which might, we think, occupy a more honored position than that...
Since the above was written, we have received a circular containing information with regard to this very subject, in which we were most happy to find the following sentence: "In special cases the Academic Council is authorized to remit the requisition of residence at the University to Bachelors of Arts or Science of Harvard University." We learn from this circular that there will next year be twenty-four extra courses designed especially for Bachelors of Arts; all this to be in addition to the regular elective courses, which will still be open to graduates. There will also be evening readings...
...students conditioned on any subject, and all those not satisfied with their mark on any subject, could go into examinations in following years as many times as they wished, by paying a small fee for the examination, and the mark obtained, if higher than the previous one, should be substituted for it. Students could carry at one time as many as six conditions before suspension. All the examinations of the year should be fixed and determined as soon as possible after the beginning of the term...