Word: plan
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Physical Training Conference of last evening seems to have had at least one practical result in the resolution passed asking the Faculty to appoint a committee to investigate the plans proposed. The opinion expressed by the speakers at the meeting was unanimous, that whatever plan is ultimately adopted at Harvard not only is the general principle of physical training as closely connected with mental efficiency, an enlightened one, but also that those who succeed in increasing the general health of their bodies as well as that of their minds, should receive credit...
Thus a committee appointed by the Faculty will be able to feel that not only is the general plan of adopting a course of physical training here, one which is approved by those who have considered the question carefully, but also that a course counting toward a degree would meet with favor. Further, Mr. Hemenway's liberal offer in guarantee of the expense that would be incurred in adding physical training to the University curriculum, greatly simplifies the matter, and will certainly help to hasten a decision...
...announced in another column, this evening's Physical Training Conference has been arranged with the idea of promoting undergraduate discussion of the subject. There has of late been a growing feeling among certain graduates that some more general plan of encouraging physical development here might be more than justified by the practical good resulting from it. This sentiment was expressed in the report of the Committee on Physical Training, Athletic Sports, and Sanitary Condition of Buildings, to the Board of Overseers. To quote from the report:- "A large proportion of students not being sufficiently strong and active to play...
...offered to certain schools in the neighborhood of Boston the use of the club's boats and free instruction by Richard Glendon, the club's rowing instructor. If the schools take kindly to the plan, and a sufficient number of crews are rowing before June 17 the Metropolitan Rowing Association will provide a special race for them in its regatta on the Charles River...
...trustees of the Lowell estate have given notice to the committee which is trying to raise funds sufficient to buy the land and make a park that the option will not be extended after March 1. This means that over $14,000 must be raised this month, if the plan is to be carried out. A special effort will be made in the next few days, as if the sum is not raised, "Elmwood" will be sold immediately for building lots, and the scheme will be made impossible in the future. The sum already subscribed is a little less than...