Word: three-year
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There has been some comment of late upon the disorganization of the Senior class caused by the increasing number of three-year graduation, and various methods of obviating the difficulty have been suggested. We believe that an increase in the requirements for a three-year degree is preferable to a reduction of the regular College course to that period, but there is another plan which is well worth considering. If the average entrance age could be lowered, there would be much less need of going through in three years in order to get into business at an early...
...many problems which will confront President Lowell, one of the most important from an undergraduate point of view is the question of three-year graduation. The number of men who take their degrees in three years has increased with every graduating class, until now it has become a matter deserving of most serious consideration...
...teams if he is registered in one of the graduate departments. The other alternative open to the undergraduate is to go through in three years. This is really no very difficult task and it is often done by men who are unable to stay four years for financial reasons or who prefer to get some business training in their fourth year. A man who goes into business immediately loses all the pleasures of the Senior year, usually the most enjoyable of the four, and one who stays in one of the graduate schools finds himself in a decidedly unpleasant situation...
...would seem distinctly undesirable to destroy the privilege of early graduation altogether, but we believe that it should be made considerably more difficult to get a degree in less than the ordinary time. If men were not allowed to anticipate courses or if the requirements for a three-year degree were increased, the unity of Harvard College would be decidedly strengthened...
...deMilhau '06, and Dr. E. F. Horr, left Cambridge about a year ago for a three years' ethnological trip to study the primitive Indian tribes of South America. Mrs. Farabee, who accompanied the party, is still in Arequipa, where the Harvard Observatory is situated. J. W. Hastings '05 has recently returned to Cambridge, in accordance with his intention to remain only a year in South America. The other members of the party are all in good health and expect to stay in South America for the full three-year period. The trip of the first year was in the region...