Word: transferring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Students in large courses which embody several sections often comment upon the difference in marking and instruction readily discernable between any two of the various divisions. Not infrequently undergraduates change sections in order to "get a man" under whom they "can pass"; or less often transfer to a section where they "will learn something". A similar phenomenon is also noted in the case of half-courses, one of which continues the work of the other. Although the work of the second semester is usually started with practically the same subject, the identical lecturer, and about the same students...
Five Seniors have been elected to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa: Horace Bancroft Davis of Brookline; Samuel Leo Fuss of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a transfer student from the University of Pittsburgh; Julian Lawrence Holley of Bristol, Connecticut, a transfer student from Williams College; Charles Hartshorne of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, a transfer student from Haverford College; and Fulmer Franklin Mood of Oakland, California. Only five more members of this class will be taken into the Phi Beta Kappa. These will be elected at the time of the Final Examinations on special consideration for honorary degrees...
...transfer to Harvard College next fall from other colleges or universities will be admitted provisionally to one or the other of the College classes instead of being rated as "unclassified students" as heretofore...
Must Have Good Record No man will be thus admitted to Harvard by transfer whose record in his last year at his former college contains a single failure or deficiency of any kind, and in case his record during his provisional year at Harvard proves unsatisfactory, he will be denied promotion or dropped to a lower class...
...unreasonable cause for the lack of Harvard support in the West may be found to some degree in the-treatment given here to students transferring from other colleges. Instead of a consideration of the previous scholastic training of the previous scholastic training of the transfer student, with a view to facilitating his rapid entrance into under-graduate life; the University has in the past assumed towards him a rigorous attitude, has appended to his surname the undignified tag of "Unc", and thereby deprived him of all but purely scholastic training until such time as he may have demonstrated that...