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...regulation of the Committee on Admission, students transferring to the College and the Engineering School from other colleges and universities, will be admitted only to the freshman and sophomore classes at Harvard. The practice has been to admit men by transfer with any classification except that of Senior...
...change in policy means that the transfer student will remain at Harvard three years before receiving his degree. Exceptions will be made in the case of particularly brilliant men who demonstrate their ability to complete their course of study in two years. The new measure has been taken chiefly to preserve for the students involved the unity of the Harvard three-year tutorial system...
...ruling of the Committee on Admissions that transfer students will in the future be admitted only to the Freshman and Sophomore classes is another definite step in making the possession of a Harvard diploma more than a haphazard occurrence. By causing every student to spend at least three years at Harvard before graduation, the University is increasing the value of its A.B. or Engineering degree...
...tendency to regard college as merely a means of social entrance has been decried often enough by leading educators. Such barriers as the College Board examinations necessarily limit the number of applicants to those universities using them. With transfer students, Yale in particular among the Eastern colleges is extremely wary in its choice of admissions...
...ruling is, of course, no illogical discrimination against transfer students themselves, as the amendment permitting exceptions in the case of students of proven ability testifies. It enhances the value of a Harvard degree and is a safeguard against the possibility that any of her graduates are not true products of her own educational system. It is, in a final analysis, a protection for Harvard...