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...terms of office of the stockholders elected by the members of the Society on November 25 were decided by lot as follows: Major Henry L. Higginson, five-year term: Professor Samuel Williston, four-year term; Professor Wallace C. Sabine, three-year term; Dean LeBaron R. Briggs, two-year term; Professor Harold C. Ernst, one-year term...
...Corporation of the Medical School has approved the vote of the Faculty to raise the tuition fee for the fourth year from $100 to $200, making the fee uniform for all four years. When only a three-year course was required for a degree, the fee for a fourth year was made smaller as an inducement to the students to enter upon another year. The requirements for a degree now demand four years of study. This change will affect all students who enter the School after the academic year 1902-03, but they will be exempt from the customary graduation...
...magazine contains, besides these two articles named above, the following: "From a Graduate's Window," "James Bradstreet Greenough," "Actualities of the Three-Year A.B. Degree," "A Harvard Ascetic--E. A. Sophocles," "Joseph Le Conte," "The Opening of the Harvard Union," "The University," "Athletics," "The Graduates...
...most important article in the number is "College Work and the A.B. in Three Years" by Professor Edwin H. Hall, which discusses the question as to whether or not it is feasible for the undergraduates body as a whole to change from a four-year course to a three-year course, without reducing the sum total of work accomplished by the ordinary student. To obtain trustworthy data on this question, about fifty students were selected from the "middle third" of each of the four college classes, from whom statistics were made. Some of the results are printed below, taking...
...final conclusion is that the three-year course would be bad for the students, because it would require them to divide their attention between too many subjects at one time, and to require them to spend a larger portion of their time in the class-room with less self-sustained work. To change from a four-year to a three-year course, without alteration in the amount of work, would be "bad for the reputation of the College, because it would set up a pretension that the Harvard A.B. had not been lowered by the change to a three-year...