Word: plan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...above plan of placing tablets inscribed with the names of the men who were killed, in their respective rooms, was proposed at a recent meeting of the Memorial Society, where it met with great approval. The names would be simply, but appropriately framed, in the same manner in which the names of all former occupants of the rooms in the Yard dormitories are at present by the Memorial Society...
...report of the President of the Associated Harvard Clubs to be submitted at the twenty-first annual meeting at Buffalo in June, contains a proposal for a combination of the Harvard Alumni Association, the Associated Harvard Clubs, and the Association of Class Secretaries. The plan will be submitted for ratification in the belief that a centralized organization would be better able to keep the graduates in touch with the University than the present decentralized system. In addition, such a combination would prove a more effective instrument for accomplishing graduate desires, and would unite the alumni on a more uniform basis...
...plan proposed by the President of the Harvard Clubs may not be accepted, but it is to be hoped that some similar merger will be decided upon at the meeting in June. It has long been a fault of the existing machinery that a majority of the officers of the Alumni Association have been chosen from the East, largely because the elections have been held at Commencement time and the men of the East have been present in preponderant numbers. The new organization, if put into effect, will doubtless provide a method for distributing the officers in a more representative...
...fitness of the average University man. It was found that the standard of college men entering the army was especially low, as was proved by the number of those rejected. Yale has a system of compulsory exercises for men in their freshman year, and this has proved an effective plan. It is expected that this measure, if carried through, will tend to produce similar good results here...
...some dignified monument that should forever commemorate the heroism of the university's sons. In view of the fact, however, that the money necessary and incident to the erection of such a monument would have to be funds diverted from courses where they are needed for educational purposes, this plan was for the moment laid aside, and consideration given to other aspects of the question. After a long period of discussion it was decided that the most fitting place possible for the memorial is within the walls of old Nassau, which is already rich in historical associations. The plan, then...