Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year studies of the Medical School be counted, under certain conditions, for the degree of A. B.- a proposal in which the law faculty concurred-had for its object the shortening of the college course by one year for students who should pursue their professional studies to the full limit in the Harvard schools. This proposal was discussed at the December meeting of the council in 1886, and the whole subject is still under advisement...
...alumni, too, have taken an interest in the matter and have been working to remedy the evils. One of the greatest troubles has been that there were so few desirable societies that some of the best men in the class have to "get left" on account of the limited number of men taken in. This is especially true of the junior societies. Psi U. and D. K. E., which have usually taken in about 40 men, but who have decided to limit the number to 20 in the future. This condition of things has led to the re-establishment...
...great heaps of sand and gravel called terminal moraines, pited up by the ice where its progress was stopped. These heaps are sometimes very large, one in Pennsylvania is 150 feet high and 12 miles long, Nantucket and Martha's Vinevard are also terminal moraines. The southern limit, from New Jersey to the Pacific, of this ice-sheet was shown by maps; and, curiously enough, this line also bounds the great wheat fields of the country, the area once covered with ice being far more productive than the rest...
Since the previous notice in the CRIMSON, estimates of the cost have changed somewhat in detail; but while the Globe Theatre has unexpectedly gone down $25 per night, the other expenses will exceed the limit then stated. Below are the items...
Harvard modestly makes no claim to beating Yale and Princeton. Her only ambition is to keep the scores within a decent limit.- Phila. Press...