Word: exception
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...students in Harvard College, except those who entered before 1910, must pass, before they can be admitted to the Junior class, a special oral examination in either French or German to test their reading knowledge of the language. These examinations will be given in the afternoon from Monday, January 25, to Thursday, January 28, inclusive. All men who have not yet passed their examination, and who desire to try it at this time, must notify the Recorder, University 4, in writing, before Wednesday, January 20, stating in which language the examination is desired. Notice will then be sent each candidate...
...basis, as in other countries, so that an ambitious and patriotic young man might take up diplomacy as a career, knowing that his efforts would be rewarded. Here, a change of administration means a change of Secretary of State and most of the ambassadors and consuls. In every country except the United States there is a permanent secretary who knows who is who in diplomacy and remains in his position for a long period of years...
...M.L.A. '10, recently landscape architec for the Isthmian Canal Commission, for the laying out of the new town of Bal boa, Panama. These plans will remain open to inspection by members of the University and their friends through Saturday. Visitors will be admitted from 9 to 5 o'clock, except on Saturday when the exhibition will close at 4 o'clock...
...students in Harvard College except those who entered before 1910 must pass, before they can be admitted to the Junior class, a special oral examination to test their ability to translate either French or German. Opportunity to take this examination will be given in the afternoons from Monday, January 25, to Thursday, January 28, inclusive. All candidates who wish to take the oral examinations in either French or German must notify the Recorder, University 4, in writing, before Wednesday, January 20. Each candidate will then be notified when and where to present himself for the oral examination...
...rather rough in workmanship and not always of crystal clearness. The bit of verse following, "From a Warm Room," one is uncertain whether to take seriously or humorously. After this come the "Glimpses," of Paris and of Boston respectively. The former--"Paris: Under a Bridge"--is very good description, except that the writer, with that serene disregard of natural fact which appears in so much undergraduate production, seems to make gorse and heather one and the same and both purple. (The reviewer at least had supposed them different and gorse yellow). In the second sketch--"Boston: Mount Vernon Street...