Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apart from the waste of time incident upon the crowded conditions and the impossibility of any extra time at the end of the hour in which the instructor may answer questions, it is apparent that with the considerable increase in registration that will accompany the inauguration of the House Plan next year the physical limits of the present buildings will have been reached. While there remains a small margin of expansion in the fact that the rooms are not always used up to their full capacity, to take advantage of this small leeway would prove very difficult and would involve...
...whole, new buildings to the north of the Yard seem the only practical solution. There may be other considerations that would make some other plan more advisable, but while opinions are still abundant on the subject of the House Plan nothing has been offered by University officials towards remedying this lack. Suitable living accommodations are important factors in providing for the welfare of the student but they are only one phase of the problem and it would be the utmost folly to develop them to the exclusion of the no less essential teaching facilities...
...light of speculative thought. The university man is one of the few who can formulate ideas without having the question of earning a living predominating his ideas. On the other hand, the objection that the college is merely a catalogue of theories, is disproved by this Princeton plan, for it proposes an appeal to actual conditions as the final proof of the validity of its conclusions...
Student leadership at Lafayette College is to take on a new aspect with faculty training for undergraduate committee heads and managers of athletic teams. According to a plan put forth by the Lafayette Student Council and approved by the student body, instruction by members of the faculty in to be given student leaders in such fields as schedule making, bookkeeping, and budgeting...
Greater efficiency in the management of student affairs might occur with the inception of this experienced direction. Were it not that extra-curricular activities exist for other ends beside the mere accomplishment of office routine, the plan would have no apparent flaw. But the function and benefits of these undergraduate activities are so essentially divorced from the idea of formal instruction that any move to bring the two nearer together very much resembles an encroachment. Far more ultimate good is to be had from the self-teaching and individual assertion of free leaders than from the more systematic attention...