Word: years
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to the statistics, 58 more students than in 1928 attempted this year's tests. On the other hand, 249 fewer took the examinations than in September 1925, during which academic year the system providing for the passing off of language requirements with the attainment of certain marks is specified courses was instituted. In that year, 1109 students took the examinations, while this fall only 920 tried the tests. The general decrease is attributed directly to the alteration in the means of receiving credit for the requirements...
...This year, however, on the week-end of the Michigan game Freshmen in good standing will be allowed the privileges of upper classmen so far as af- tendance upon the last class before the holiday is concerned. That is, they will not necessarily be placed on probation if they cut the last class before the November 11th holiday. However, if they do take such cuts and their records subsequently become in any particular unsatisfactory, these cuts will weigh heavily against them...
...policy outlined above is one which has been followed by the Dean's Office for the last two years and is in accordance with our desire to regard attendance on the part of upper classmen in good standing not as an end in itself, but as a means to an end. Under this policy, instead of taking disciplinary action on a holiday cut as such, the effect of the extension of a holiday on the student's record is considered. For example, upper classmen are not ordinarily placed on probation for unsatisfactory records at November or April, and even...
...other words, it should be emphasized that all holiday cuts are taken at a student's own risk and will weigh heavily against him if his record becomes in any way unsatisfactory during the course of the year. The responsibility is thus placed squarely on the undergraduate, and it has been our experience that once a policy has been explained, we can count on the Harvard student to live up to his responsibilities without abuse...
...Murdock '16, assistant professor of English, R. S. Hillyer '17, assistant professor of English, and E. A. Whitney '17, assistant professor of History are members of a new committee which will issue at intervals throughout the year lists of recommended recent non-fiction, a service made possible for alumni and undergraduates of Harvard through the book department of the Harvard Cooperative Society, it was announced yesterday...