Word: planning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...History 20 under the charge of Dr. Hart, will take up topics in United States history connected with the period since the outbreak of the civil war. The work to be done will consist of a short and a long thesis by each member of the course. This plan must meet the approval of all college men who are interested in questions of original research, for the papers which the men in the course will prepare are intended to be real discoveries. Political matters of importance that heretofore have escaped the notice of historians or biographers are by no means...
...undergraduate anniversary committee have presented to the university for ratification the plan which they have drawn up for the celebration of undergraduates day at the approaching quarter millenium. The plan calls for an enlargement of the committee in order that the work may be carried out more successfully. But the celebration proposed is of such a character that its success will necessitate a unanimous and cheerful support of the committee by the students. That this end may be attained the plan will be submitted to the classes in order that it may receive the ratification of each, and that...
...long while before taking the step which was sure to come some day. The grand service on Sunday night - when almost as large an audience as that which assembled to hear Canon Farrar, was gathered in the chapel, showed that the students were eager to receive the new plan for religious worship. The noble words of Phillips Brooks - "We now give you religion, with the only foreign element which it formerly had, removed; we appeal to your humanity to preserve it. We appeal to you as men, not as students" - these words will never be forgotten by those who heard...
...matter of indifference. Would it not save the majority of the lower layer of our future government officials from that "bumming" which must occur when one wastes from one to three years of his life? The academic freedom would not be affected in the leas; by this plan, only the right to conceal laziness from parents, guardians and the university officers would...
...merited rebuke. But now that it is established, that each student shall be allowed to exercise his own discretion in attending prayers, does there not arise another question of equal interest to the student and perhaps of even more politic interest to the university, - the question whether the present plan will be successful? It is hardly matter for surprise that in the opinion of many the abolition of compulsory attendance upon prayers meant the discontinuance of the religious services themselves. In so far as the attendants upon prayers are concerned, such an event is a possibility...