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Word: select (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Competitors are at liberty to select the subjects of their essays, provided they are approved by the committee. Although an essay offered by a graduate may not contain more than 15,000 words, if desired, it may be part of a doctoral thesis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RULES GOVERNING CURRENT BOWDOIN PRIZES EXPLAINED | 12/10/1919 | See Source »

Despite the abolition of the popular select three-year course in its scientific school, Yale has a larger enrolment than it had in 1916. The university is undergoing a thorough reorganization, which includes departmentalization of the faculty and some changes in admission requirements. For the first time in Yale history, boys may now be admitted without Latin. Such students will receive the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, which was formerly conferred on those graduating from the Sheffield Scientific School. On its part "Sheff" will now offer only the degree of Bachelor of Science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1919 RECORD-BREAKING YEAR FOR AMERICAN COLLEGES | 12/6/1919 | See Source »

Accompanied by or replacing the customary examination, psychological tests have been given this year in a number of colleges all over the country. The idea of the tests is to assist the individual to select the branch of study for which he is host aired manfully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A.B. Men Highest in "Psych" Test | 11/22/1919 | See Source »

...Fruition have been reorganized. In the past, when certain College officials were the judges, there was a tendency to reserve the honors for men from their several institutions. The committee is now composed of former Rhodes scholars, and their familiarity with conditions at Oxford makes them competent to select students best fitted to meet these conditions with success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RHODES SCHOLARS OLD AND NEW. | 11/4/1919 | See Source »

...taking place in most of the colleges throughout the country, and to meet the new conditions caused by the great inrush of students, several of them are announcing changes in their curricula. The most important undergraduate change this year in Yale's reconstruction plans is the abolition of the select course of the Sheffield Scientific School and its transfer to the academic department, whose fine arts course it had duplicated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE'S CURRICULUM CHANGED | 9/24/1919 | See Source »

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