Word: provost
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual report of Provost Harrison of the University of Pennsylvania, for the year ending August 31, 1900, has just been published. According to the registration figures 2,673 students, were in attendance--a decrease of 117, caused chiefly by the prolongation of the courses in law, medicine and dentistry, and the increased requirements for admission. The number of instructors...
...judges will be: Chief Justice Parker of the New York Court of Appeals, Provost G. W. Pepper of the University of Pennsylvania, and Professor Frank Goodnow of Columbia. The name of the presiding officer has not yet been announced...
...Provost's report acknowledges gifts received during the past year amounting to something over $600,000, and discusses the relation of undergraduate and graduate courses. Heretofore graduates have been barred from courses intended for college students except in a very few cases, and there is a growing demand for a class of courses like those at Harvard intended "for graduates and undergraduates." The chief difficulty lies in the objection to admitting the women in the graduate school to college courses...