Word: diminished
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...Three Year Plan" by Professor Hall is a remarkably sane and clear presentation of the tendency towards a shortening of the College course. The point that the increased weekly number of lectures necessary to the three-year plan will diminish the hours spent in actual work is well taken. It is a real objection to the shorter course...
...matter of obtaining the degree of A.B. in three years, it appears that the movement to diminish the number of courses needed for the degree has become conspicuous not through Faculty legislation looking to that end, but through natural causes. The cutting out of prescribed courses began in 1890 with Physics A, a course counting towards the degree as two-tenths of a full course. Since then the diminution in courses has been working mainly through the English department. The movement is best typified by the fact that now students who anticipate English a with grade A or B must...