Word: plan
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have the merits of being prepared in the most careful way under the direct supervision of some of the most able scholars in America, and it would supply to this country books like those that come from the Clarendon, Edinburgh, and Glasgow presses. There is no reason why this plan, if carried into execution, should not succeed perfectly. Our scholars are as thorough as any, and the result of their efforts could not fail to be a text that would serve as a standard to colleges and schools. It is true that in Germany and England men spend their lives...
...charming Arabella was disgusted with the plan...
...suggestion has been made that students who graduate with good standing from the leading fitting schools should be admitted to Harvard without an examination. A similar plan has already been adopted at Dartmouth, and those who seem so desirous that Harvard should be sui generis may consider this a fatal objection to its adoption here; but there are several advantages to be gained which are worth consideration. This plan would do away with the worry, excitement, and luck which attend every entrance examination. It would remove the feeling that these examinations are the object of all labor, and that after...
...acknowledging their receipt, and we do not regret our caution. The first marks did, indeed, appear like the harbingers of the much-desired reform, but their appearance has been followed by a calm of such protracted suspense that it has become impossible for us to carry out our cherished plan of an eloquent editorial. That the so-called marking system has become a trite butt of undergraduate indignation we are well aware; but when we turn from the instructors who keep us in what seems to be unnecessary suspense, and contemplate those whose marking system is a mystery...
...said, keeps a huge note-book by him night and day, in which to record every brilliant thought, and whenever he has filled a dozen pages in this way he selects a title at random, and publishes them as a new essay. Smith was following, in a measure, this plan. Every incident in the barn-yard, every narrow escape from a mowing-machine, was booked for future use. Such is the devotion to art which every literary man feels...