Word: lengthening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Beginning October 1 '94, Columbia will lengthen her medical course from three years to four...
There is a bill before the legislature of Illinois to lengthen the courses in the law schools from two to three years...
...Administrative Board has voted that, unless for exceptional reasons, no student shall be permitted to lengthen the Spring Recess at either beginning or end. The Board believes that at Christmas every student whose home is far from Cambridge should be allowed to leave Cambridge before the recess begins - provided he receives formal permission from the office; but it is unwilling that the Spring Recess should become a serious break in college work...
...trustees of Wesleyan have voted to lengthen the summer vacation from 11 to 13 weeks...
...absence of a large number of students is a serious interruption to teaching and that their unauthorized absence is a serious obstacle to discipline, the Harvard Faculty has sent a circular note to the parents of a large number of men who were influenced by the pardonable desire to lengthen their Christmas vacation by an earlier exodus from Cambridge than was consistent with the regulations of the college. In this note, the attention of the parents is directed to the fact that the rule of "continuous residence in Cambridge during term-time" is obligatory on all men - except where "special...