Word: term
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...most courses the classes will meet five times a week during the six weeks of the term, and in general each student takes only one course; but there are certain combinations of two courses which may be taken together. The classroom periods vary from one to two hours in courses conducted by lectures or recitations, but they are usually longer in drawing or laboratory courses...
...time: Professors will receive $4000, to be increased to a maximum of $5500; associate professors will receive $3500, to be increased to $4500; assistant professors who are still eligible to promotion to a professorship, or an associate professorship, will be appointed at $2500 in the first five-year term and $3000 in the second five-year term as hitherto; instructors will receive from now on $1200 upon appointment, and a yearly increase of $100, until the maximum $1500 for instructors is reaches, subject to previous contracts for higher salaries...
...general result of this new scale, with the exceptions mentioned, is to increase by $500 the salary for each grade, from the salary of an assistant professor in his first term to the maximum salary of a professor...
...February 28 an open novice tournament for all amateur fencers who have never won a fencing prize, will be held in the same room, and on March 16 an open Junior tournament will be held. "Junior" is a term of the Amateur Fencers' League of America, and includes all amateur fencers who have won prizes in a novice tournament, but are not yet sufficiently skillful to be classed with the Senior fencers...
...McEwen made the last speech of the debate. We have been told, he said, that football is a benefit because it improves men by submitting them to temptation. This is a remarkable argument. Our opponents have laid great stress on character, but in the definition of this term they have been very indefinite. Character has improved as rapidly throughout the United States as in the college world alone. We are discussing the game of football not the men in the stands. We affirm that no other contest, as a contest, has so many evils as football. Our opponents talk about...