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...four-year course in forestry has been instituted in the Lawrence Scientific School, to begin next fall. The greater part of the work to be included in this course has been offered for some years in the form of separate courses in the Scientific School. Part of these courses have been given in the various University buildings and others at the Bussey Institution and Arnold Arboretum. The additional courses to be added will be largely technical and will be given by Mr. R. T. Fisher '98, recently appointed an instructor in forestry, and another instructor not yet announced...
...error on which the three-year idea is based seems to be that the degree of Bachelor of Arts simply denotes that its holder has done the work of seventeen courses. If that were true, the three-year plan would have no opponents. What the degree has hitherto meant, however, is that its holder, if he is a "competent" man, has lived for four years an academic life, in which he has pursued liberal studies with some success, in which he has had an opportunity to partake in one or more of the College activities, and in which...
Many people claim that such is not the case. They say that these men have more experience; that it causes more cases of professionalism to be brought up, and that these men are too old to play on college teams. In the first place, the four-year rule is just as strict for a graduate student as for an undergraduate, so the difference in experience is generally very slight. As far as professionalism is concerned. I cannot see why an older, more level-headed man, should try to evade these rules any more than a young student just...
...Indiana University in 1898. In February, 1902, he presented a letter from the chairman of the athletic committee of Indiana University certifying that he had been a member of the regular football team of his university for three years ending with the season of 1897, and that under the four-year rule he was eligible to play one year more. This certificate, accompanied by Mr. King's statement that he had played only three years, was accepted as conclusive, and he was allowed to join the Harvard team. A few days before the Pennsylvania game, a letter reached the head...
...terms of office of the stockholders elected by the members of the Society on November 25 were decided by lot as follows: Major Henry L. Higginson, five-year term: Professor Samuel Williston, four-year term; Professor Wallace C. Sabine, three-year term; Dean LeBaron R. Briggs, two-year term; Professor Harold C. Ernst, one-year term...