Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ambition of the Cornell plan is primarily preventative; it will attempt merely, avers the Cornell Sun, to prevent the fevered cramming that precedes examinations. Its effort will be directed to a sound recapitulation of knowledge delivered, rather than reliance on the individual for a period of self-education...
...definite availability of the faculty the Cornell plan anticipates what has been the only flaw in the Reading Period. At Harvard the tutors, who might be expected to give significance in terms of divisionals and fields of concentration to the final harvesting of a half-year's study, cannot be consulted, while the section man, often as like to the tutor as the captain to the crew of the captain's gig, keeps precarious office hours...
...limitations of the Cornell plan may prove depriving where full success, measured in terms of potentiality, may be only half-success. It will be very much at the mercy of different instructors in the matters of attendance, reading, theses, and the like. In this respect it contrasts with the Reading Period, which insures a certain regular treatment of the interval by all courses that are not either elementary in nature or primarily for Freshmen. The Cornell lecturer can require attendance throughout the period, or he can place his faith where Harvard has, in assigned reading and study emancipated...
Members of the Dramatic Club are undertaking this project in order that students from Harvard, Princeton, and other Eastern universities, to whom the drama is a leading interest, may have an opportunity to take part in professional dramatics. If the plan proves successful this summer, officers of the Dramatic Club hope to make it an annual affair, with the company gradually being enlarged and including representatives from more universities. After a few summers of stage work at Falmouth, it is planned to open a small theatre in New York City as a further experiment...
Second: Of three U. S. businessmen called upon to be statesmen in the formation of the "Dawes Plan," two were G. E. Directors?Mr. Young and Banker Henry M. Robinson, of Los Angeles, California...