Word: planning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...professional subjects, seamanship, gunnery, etc. The two years at sea are spent in sea-going ships and are devoted to the application of the principles learned at the academy, and to the requirement of that professional knowledge that can only be gained by experience. Such is the general plan of the Naval Academy. How well this plan is carried out, and whether in the best manner possible is a subject too long to be here entered upon. But this is certain, that the cadet who would go through the academy with success must "look alive." For to cover the ground...
...Ornithological Club Tuesday evening a definite plan of collecting was decided upon. The adjacent country has been divided into five districts, each of which will be collected over by a section of the club. The club now occupies the room of the N. H. Society, Mass...
...were appointed principal and assistant inspectors of polls at the next election of overseers. Mr. Russell presented the report of the committee on the relation of the college faculty to the Board of Overseers, and this was accepted and laid on the table. The special assignment on the proposed plan of examinations for admission to the college came up, and communicetions from presidents of New England colleges upon the general subject were received, when it was voted to consider the same in connection with the subject. After a somewhat lengthy discussion, the board adjourned...
Still another faculty meeting has gone by, and the plan for a conference committee remains undiscussed, no chance for considering it having presented itself. Everyone, the faculty as well as the students, we believe, will regret this continued delay; although so long as other pressing business remains before the faculty, there seems to be no hope for a change in the situation. Just at present there are several matters in which the conference committee, if it were established, might be useful. It might inquire of the faculty, for instance, the reason why the bulletin boards of the nine were prohibited...
...obtain a better understanding of the views of the students, and a better means of communication with them. The committee was given none but advisory powers, but its suggestions were influential in the conference and the questions were settled in a manner entirely satisfactory to both sides. As this plan had worked so well, it was thought best to make the committee permanent, giving it as before only power to advise...