Word: plan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present, although the athletic teams and all undergraduate publications have representatives on the Council, there are no members from among the foreign students. The new plan, however, will be put in effect very shortly...
...closing of the Hostess House was seriously considered when the War Camp Community Service found itself unable to continue the activity. But the pressure, brought to bear, against this plan by the men who have been using the house was so great that the resolution to close it was decided to be unjustifiable, and it will continue in its present quarters until the fall, when the committee has been invited to carry on its hostess work in the Union. ANNE HATHAWAY GULICK, Chairman...
Before the Faculty decides in favor of extending the general examination plan now used in the Division of History, Government, and Economics to other departments, the failure of the tutorial plan in the present system should be remedied. The average student derives almost no benefit from his fortnightly tutorial conferences, and until the middle of his Senior year looks upon them as an unpleasant and useless extra task to be hurried over and forgotten. Then, too late, he realizes his mistake and sees the connecting and comprehensive values his work has failed to gain...
Would not converting the fortnightly conferences into a compulsory course with a half-point credit for a year's work solve the problem? The plan should certainly be continued as it is most beneficial in linking up a student's single courses and in filling up the gaps in his chosen period. The realization of the fact that he was being closely marked on his work and that he was gaining credit for his efforts would make the average student apply himself to his tutorial conferences. Debates at conferences between students or written essays and reports upon the assigned work...
...latest ideas in filing devices. The $10,000 tabulating machine is considered one of the greatest time-savers ever invented; it is not sold, but rented by the year to various organizations. The newest addition to the laboratory is a "stenotype" machine, which is modelled on the plan of a typewriter and takes shorthand automatically. Five different adding machines have also been installed, and besides all the foregoing, there are a number of automatic mailing machines, addressographs, stenciling machines, addressographs, stenciling machines, cash registers, dictophones, typewriters, duplicators, minute-recording thermometers, "protectographs," automatic bell calls, and letter openers...