Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Special students...
...above table shows that while the whole number of students has increased, the gain is due only to undergraduates, as the number or special students has fallen off. Following this are tables showing the total number of men who took the entrance examinations, and the conditions under which they presented themselves. The following is a short summary of the results of the examinations for the past two years...
...students in any one course was 250 in Fine Arts 3, and the next greatest number was 232 in Political Economy 1. From this the number descends to one there being ten courses with only one students in each, all of them either advanced language courses or courses for special research...
...regulations concerning probation have been made more explicit. One new departure of the past year was the placing of all freshmen under an advisor, thirteen members of the faculty having each twenty-five men under their charge. This plan had worked so well in the case of special students that the faculty decided to apply it to freshmen as affording them great advantages and enabling them to settle upon their college work, with the aid of a competent advisor, sooner than they could otherwise have done. In the past it has been found that the examinations for admission, coming...
College Faculty. Special meeting at University...