Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experiment has been avoided. A year ago the college was awaiting with considerable trepidation the coming of a first Reading Period that was known to it only by official statements and formidable reading lists. The results in those courses adopting it, however, were so gratifying that converts to the plan flocked in as one non-scientific department after another took up the standard...
...innovation. There are more fundamental problems that will have to be met and at least a beginning made towards overcoming during this second year. The professor must cover his field and still allow the student time for some independent work, according to one of the avowed objects of the plan. A balance will have to be found between the necessity of testing the work done in the examinations following and the granting of liberty to each man to make his own choice of reading. These and other difficulties could not be attacked until the mechanics of the system were corrected...
...plan was, it is true, under consideration for holding only two classes per week in this subject, with the substitution of outside reading in place of the third class, but the Department according to Professor Burbank's statement ruled out the proposal...
...major arguments in favor of the step are two. Many familiar with the sight of a first-class pitcher who has allowed three hits in seven innings being removed from the line-up to allow a strong hitter to toe the plate. Mr. Heydler's plan would allow the pinch-hitter and keep the pitcher in the game. Besides the elimination of this handicap to a team, Mr. Heydler points out that his plan would speed up ball games by doing away with the annoying delays of getting a pitcher ready to hit, and getting him a sweater when...
Following the plan initiated last year, the annual production of the Pi Eta Club will take the form of a semi-public presentation with the first night restricted to club members, and the second open to relatives and friends of the club members. The club will make no attempt to put the show on the road, confining its presentation to the two performances in its own theatre...