Word: germane
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Students who enter Harvard College with the class of 1914 must pass, before they can be admitted to the Junior class, a special oral examination to test their reading knowledge of either French or German. any member of the class of 1914 who has not already passed this oral examination and wishes to take it during the final period must notify the Recorder, 4 University Hall, in writing, before Thursday, May 25. Each candidate will then be notified when and where to present himself for the oral examination...
...Harvard do better service to the country by reducing the price of education, by adopting the German system of compensating professors, by favoring the leadership of the intellectual student, rather than of the athletic or convivial student, or by any other change...
...meet the objection, that the cost of compensating such lecturers would be too great, the competitors for the prize are invited to consider the German method of compensating the lecturer. That method is to pay a small, fixed sum to each lecturer, which is called a viaticum, and to give the lecturer very small lecture fees from each of his many hearers, the same to be the sole compensation of the lecturer. Thus there is very little more cost for the maintenance of a lecturer with 1000 hearers, than for the maintenance of a lecturer who had ten to twenty...
...Germanic Languages and Literatures the candidate must have a reading knowledge of Latin and French and must have taken five courses in the Department, not more than one of which may be a course ordinarily open to Freshmen, and three other courses in the Divisions of Ancient and Modern Languages, from among those not ordinarily open to Freshmen (but Greek B and Latin B will be regarded as acceptable courses). Work done in other colleges or privately may be accepted as the equivalent of some of these courses. The candidate must be able to write German with readiness and correctness...
...Romance Languages and Literatures the candidate must have a reading knowledge of Latin and German and must have taken five courses in the Department, not more than one of which may be a course ordinarily open to Freshmen, and three other courses in the Divisions of Ancient and Modern Languages, from among those not ordinarily open to Freshmen (but Greek B and Latin B will be regarded as acceptable courses). Work done in other colleges or privately may be accepted as the equivalent of some of these courses. The candidate must be able to read two of the Romance Languages...