Word: count
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...cannot believe that the amount of time necessarily employed in looking up a small point in history would not be better employed in the more general work which is sacrificed in order to write the theses. At any rate, since they represent so much work they ought to count at least a third of the annual marks...
...Thus, it seems hardly right that Honorable Mention in a modern language which may have been acquired abroad, should be considered a ground for a degree cum laude. Again, in the Greek courses, it is difficult to see why Greek 1 of two years ago is excluded from the count, while Greek 2 is counted, as well as Greek 3, which, if difficulty be the criterion in arranging the courses, should properly be Greek...
...from voluntary changes of electives, while the expenses already incurred, and the advance in the year, should prevent even the suggestion of the idea of compulsory withdrawals. Under these circumstances there appear but two resorts : either to make two sections for the hour on Wednesday and Friday, or to count private hours as regular ones. In the way of either proposition there are no serious difficulties, and it is hoped that the instructor will be able to adopt one or the other. An improvement could also be made on the present mode of supplying one's self with water...
...elective pamphlet. This is that hereafter men must definitively settle by November 1 what courses they intend to pursue as electives during the year. No extra hours beyond one (which is allowed to provide for the difficulty of choosing exactly twelve or exactly fourteen hours) will be counted on the general scale as hours of electives, unless they are put down on the list of electives, or unless notice of taking them regularly is given before the date mentioned. Extra hours may still count on the special scale of any study. It has been found necessary to make this restriction...
...walk over" to count...