Word: plan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outstanding achievements of the architects is that they have created two towers, one on a square and one on an octagonal plan, which are perfectly harmonious and balance one another," he said. The prevalence of adverse criticism of Dunster House tower among undergraduates was not considered justified by Mr. Aldrich. "The tower of Christ Church College at Oxford of course furnished the basic design for the plan, but that does not seem to me to be basis for adverse criticism. The use of an octangular tower crowned with a dome is one of the main features of a great deal...
...accelerator rounding Death Curve is being employed by scientific sealots at Columbia as justification for an epochal experiment. Were it not for their undoubtedly serious intent, this trial of the savants would degenerate into more than an attempt at the world's coffee-drinking championship, for they plan to pour at least one thousand cups of coffee into three dozen otherwise normal young men and women from the university, questioning them after each cup until their ultimate capacity is reached. The conclusions of Columbia's psychophysical experts, published in a sophisticated pamphlet, will decide forever the question--Is Java harmful...
...important change effected this year in the working of the Pierian Sodality now makes eligible for election to the society all men who have attended rehearsals and concerts steadily for two consecutive half-years. According to this plan, voting will be determined solely upon the attendance records of the players, so that membership in the society will henceforth be on the same basis as that of the Glee Club...
...proverbial individualism of Harvard men has in two instances led them to precede the Plan by several years. The three-year tenantry of rooms has been combined with the opportunity of going South to Mt. Auburn Street, leaving behind the monstrosity of Memorial Hall, the bulkiness of Widener and the noise and bustle of the Square. The House Plan, in at least two respects, has had its pioneers at Harvard...
Practice teaching on this general plan has been conducted at Harvard since 1902. The extension of the idea of apprenticeship to other forms of educational service was part of the reorganization of the program of the Graduate School of Education which went into effect in 1927. The School now requires two years of work for the Master's degree with a general examination and apprenticeship in addition to the ordinary requirement of credit in courses. Every student in the School combines in his program the theoretical study of Education and advanced work in the special subject he expects to teach...