Word: planning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Pres. Gilman of Johns Hopkins University has make a plea to the various colleges to consider a plan by which an inter-collegiate system of granting degrees may be adopted. Pres. Gilman has long been identified with the movement toward a gradual broadening of the curriculum of a college course, and the plan which he now puts forth is worthy of great consideration. Any radical movement which has long been needed is very likely to be carried to an excess if it is not restricted by some restraining influence. While it is of course granted that some change should...
...more than our grandfathers had, when they graduated from college. The writer cites the great growth of Harvard since the adoption of the elective system as an argument in favor of its general adoption among the other leading colleges of the country. Mr. Curtis then unfolds a plan by which the highest aims in education can be attained. He says that the high schools should now be made to serve the purpose of the colleges of two generations ago while the scope of the universities should be so enlarged that they can serve as a field for the individual expansion...
...elected: Fessenden, '86; Russell, '87; and Herron, '87. The committee was authorized to collect subscriptions, and to appoint two assistants from each class to aid in canvassing the college. After considerable discussion as to the expense and size of a grand stand, the committee was directed to examine other plans, in addition to the one by which the cost of the grand stand would be $14,000 and to make a report to the college as to which plan seemed to promise the most suitable building at a moderate expense. Only twenty-seven men attended the meeting,-a very...
...track committee decided to call a meeting this evening in Holden Chapel for the purpose of considering what arrangements should be made towards the collection of money and the erection of a grand stand on Holmes Field. The plan that the track committee wishes the college to approve and ratify is, that a committee of three shall be elected which shall have control over the plans and expenditures of monies for the grand stand. The committee which had charge of the matter in 1883 procured plans for a stand the estimated expense of which is $14,949.00. It is planned...
...office of the treasurer. The matter for special consideration was the subject of requirements for admission to the college. The board voted to concur with the president and fellows in the appointment of Harold North Fowler, A. B., as instructor in Greek for the current year. The proposed plan of examinations for admission to the college was taken up, and, after a lengthy discussion, it was voted that a committee of five be appointed by the chair to consider and report on the requisitions for extra examinations and the present elective system and the system of voluntary attendance at recitations...