Word: planning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...board to be intrusted with the preparation and the marking of examination papers for admission in all cases where subjects and limits could be agreed upon. A free expenditure of money is necessary to procure the proper men for so important a board. Oxford and Cambridge have followed this plan successfully for years, but theirs is a board of well paid officers. The community of interest between the schools and the colleges is absolute. The hard drudgery should not belong entirely to the school, and the inspiration to the college. There is no demarkation, with one spirit of education...
...before the "Massachusetts Classical and High School Teachers Association." The reports are worth reading, for they give evidence of how alive American educators are becoming to the necessity of greater co-operation. In education, as in everything else, co-operation seems to be the key-note of success. The plan which President Eliot proposes of having a general board, representing all the colleges interested, to have charge of the preparation and marking of examination papers in all cases when subjects and limits can be agreed upon, is not without weight, and, if carried out, would in a large measure obviate...
...method has been devised for securing fixed attention during the Sunday evening services in Appleton Chapel. The plan was put into operation for the first time on Sunday last, and its simplicity of operation and the satisfactory results obtained will lead, no doubt, to its permanent adoption. The new scheme may be outlined briefly as follows: The front row of seats in the gallery is freshly varnished. Then such students as seem inclined to be restless during the services are ushered to the deceptive seats, and the exercises begin. As the sermon goes on, it is noticed that the students...
Prof. to senior in history class. "Mr. - what do you think of the plan of the early English, of calling in the Danes to help drive out William the Conquerer...
...have expressed their desire but inability to enter English VIII because of conflicting recitations. This subject of the hours for recitations is one of no little moment to students. There are some men who, at the close of their freshman or the beginning of their sophomore year, make a plan of their future electives, and frequently they are compelled to omit some very much desired course because the hours of its recitations are already taken up. This is a remedy which, although it might not find favor with our already over-worked instructors, yet because it would...