Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Permit me to add my endorsement of a Life Subscription Plan as outlined by other subscribers in your issue...
...order to make way for the first unit of the new House Plan, the building at 34 Holyoke-Street, which provides quarters for the Economics and Naval Science Departments, will be moved to a site on Plympton Street formerly occupied by wooden tenement houses, now being torn down, it was learned yesterday from A. L. Endicott '94, Comptroller of the University. Work on moving the structure will probably be started immediately after Commencement...
Since the inception of the divisional plan the courses taken in a field of concentration have become a mere means to a mastery of that field. The knowledge gained is tested in the divisional examinations; and in the case of honors candidates, a thesis provides a wider proving ground. When a man has passed his divisional requirements, he is excused from final examinations; his courses, having accomplished their purpose, are discarded. And yet a student may be refused a minor honors degree because in the opinion of the faculty perhaps one of the C's appearing in his record should...
Great emphasis has been put on the latitude which the divisional plan allows a man; a mediocre student may develop in four years to the point where he may prove, at the end, that he is worthy of a degree with honors. In order that the award of degrees may be faithful to this theory, which is a sound one, it seems unjust that such a man should miss the prize he has earned because of a slip in perhaps, his sophomore year, when he was not yet of honors calibre. As long as, a senior's course record...
...competition consisted in the design of an island estate on a topographical survey chart which was sent to all contestants. Only 14 hours were allowed for completing the preliminary drawing. The final competition, which will be judged on June 29, consists in the completion and elaboration of the preliminary plan, and the submission of drawings and specifications for carrying out the proposed development. The contestants are required to work in private, receiving no advice or criticism of any sort...