Word: planned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Trinity Tablet greatly yearns for Latin services in chapel. Its argument in their favor is somewhat as follows: Our course of study is more like that of Oxford and Cambridge than that of other American colleges. Our new buildings are "after the plan of the old English University system" (whatever the plan of a system may be), therefore we should go further and have Latin prayers, because these are used in the English universities. To begin with, we should like to know how a course of study can be at once like those of Oxford and Cambridge, which are essentially...
...securing the interest of the whole class should be kept constantly in view. In what way such a selection can be accomplished is a mooted question. Certainly a crowded class meeting is not a place where anything more abstract than personal or factional interest can be adhered to. A plan which was proposed only too late last year was the election in open meeting of a large committee of fifteen or twenty, who should report nominations to the class. In this way a calmer discussion could be obtained, the responsibility could be definitely placed, and if the committee should...
...Jove!" said I, "we'd better try your plan...
...success of the plan will depend upon the hearty co-operation of every student. If all will take right hold of boating now, this fall, and put it through vigorously, we can soon find ourselves enjoying a healthier, manlier, and cheaper pastime than smoking cigarettes in the doorway of Holyoke or playing billiards at Parker...
...this plan can be carried out, either at once or in the spring, there is every reason to believe that we can place boating on a firm footing, put an end to its hand-to-mouth struggle for existence, and arouse for it some such steady interest and genuine liking as that which makes the formation of good crews so easy a matter in the English universities; and maybe we can have as good a time with rowing as they...