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...most important article in the number is "College Work and the A.B. in Three Years" by Professor Edwin H. Hall, which discusses the question as to whether or not it is feasible for the undergraduates body as a whole to change from a four-year course to a three-year course, without reducing the sum total of work accomplished by the ordinary student. To obtain trustworthy data on this question, about fifty students were selected from the "middle third" of each of the four college classes, from whom statistics were made. Some of the results are printed below, taking...
...year course would be bad for the students, because it would require them to divide their attention between too many subjects at one time, and to require them to spend a larger portion of their time in the class-room with less self-sustained work. To change from a four-year to a three-year course, without alteration in the amount of work, would be "bad for the reputation of the College, because it would set up a pretension that the Harvard A.B. had not been lowered by the change to a three-year practice, a pretension which neither...
...important arrangement has been made in the college course, permitting seniors in the college to take at the same time the first year work of the Medical School, and thus to receive a degree in medicine in seven years. Certain courses in finance and economy have been abolished and a new four-year course in Commerce and Industry substituted. A gratifying increase in the proportion of college graduates among the new law students is noted. At present forty per cent are graduates and twenty-one per cent additional have attended college for a longer or shorter period...
...annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Golf Association was held in New York on December 22. Resolutions were passed to admit Pennsylvania to membership, to change the present scoring system to the English method and to adopt the four-year limit rule. The date for holding the annual championship was changed from fall to spring, so that the next contest will not take place until the spring...
...seventeen men who played in the Pennsylvania and Yale games this year, Donald is the only one who will be prevented from playing by the four-year eligibility rule. Five of the remaining sixteen will graduate from the College or the Scientific School, and will not play unless they return to the Law or Graduate Schools. They are Boal and his substitute, A. R. Sargent, Captain Burden, and Parker and Warren, substitute halfbacks. This means the loss of all the valuable guards of this season's team, and leaves none who have played in a steady or dependable manner this...