Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what extent the scheme of academic contests, initiated by Mrs. Putnam will foster the general enthusiasm for learning in the colleges which adopt it can be determined only through experience. As to the dangers which this plan is liable to involve such as the advent of a time "when Yale men will wade into Paradise Lost for the greater glory of Yale" or the introduction of "the evils of spectacular athletic competition into scholarship" there should be little cause for worry. The want of "a good stage manager" and the "element of personal contact" should be enough to guarantee against...
Engaged. Sinclair Lewis, flayer of babbitts, Baptists and Methodists, to Dorothy Thompson, daughter of a Methodist preacher, Berlin correspondent of the New York Evening Post. They plan to marry in London in the middle of May, to honeymoon in an automobile. Novelist Lewis was recently divorced from his first wife. Miss Thompson divorced her first husband last summer...
...Minute Men of Revolutionary days, is to be moved from its present site on 64 Dunster Street this summer to make room for the projected University gymnasium. The small Colonial house has occupied its corner location for 166 years and the Harvard building authorities, who own the structure, plan to move it intact to adjacent property, if place can be made...
...modern university is a miniature of the modern world, embracing every endeavor found elsewhere on a larger scale. The students of a university are players taking part in a dummy scrimmage. They are going through the motions, and in doing so they may plan to meet emergencies which may never come. They can make mistakes which would be fatal in a larger sphere of life but which, after they are made, may be stored up as profit for the future. Knowledge gained from observation and from the acquisition of facts may be illumined by imagination that comes from speculation...
This debate will be conducted according to the Northwestern rules, which are radically different from those usually followed. The most remarkable change is the fact that no decision will be rendered upon the question, either by judges or by the audience. The Northwestern plan also leaves time at the end of the debate for a discussion from the floor if desired. Therefore the speeches will be short, lasting only 18 minutes...