Word: plan
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Senate Committee has passed a resolution in favor of such banks. It is hoped that Congress will pass a bill to that effect, at its next session. The plan advocated is a simple one. The money entrusted to the postal savings banks will be turned over to the national banks in the neighborhood, so that it will be easily accessible. All people over ten years of age will be allowed to open accounts. Interest, amounting to 2 per cent. will be paid on all deposits not exceeding five hundred dollars...
...plan of conducting the Prospect Union has recently been changed by the creation of seven committees to supervise the various departments, each committee being composed partly of members and partly of teachers. This plan is expected to stimulate the growth of the Union, as it gives the members the desired opportunity of sharing the work of supervision, which has previously been done by the teachers only...
...take their daily exercise in running. This is no small task in itself. Moreover he has to build up a team to represent the University, each of whom must be at his best at a specified time. For the success of this team he has to plan a careful campaign. In such work, persistence, patience, and sympathy are needed; they are needed not by the trainer alone, but by those under his change as well. In this respect the year has been well begun. There are a few athletes of proved excellence remaining from last year's team...
Neither Harvard or Yale has ever tried the new system, but for two years Princeton has used it with great success in triangular debates with Cornell and Columbia. Smaller college leagues have also used the plan successfully...
...provision has been made by Mr. Schiff for taking up the work of excavation anew next April, at the end of the rainy season. It is expected that Professor George A. Reisner, in whose name the permit stands, will be in charge. This is a return to the original plan, made impossible this year by Professor Reisner's engagement in Egypt...