Word: planning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seemingly good scheme for the final examination. He has proposed a thesis subject which will cover all the year's work. The members of the section are to write out the thesis in the examination room, after getting matter for it during the rest of the course. Such a plan is necessarily better for a philosophical examination than for many other kinds; but still we would like to see it more commonly adopted. For in the ordinary examination, without showing that you have any connected idea of your work, you have barely time to jot down a few ideas...
...plan of Athletic Consolidation has come under active discussion recently at Princeton, the party favoring it being mainly the graduate Athletic Committee, and other alumni, and those opposing it, many of the principal undergraduates. In fact, however, according to the editorial statements of the Princetonian, the two parties are not as sharply defined as this, opposite opinions being held among both graduates and students...
...plan proposed in the broadest application suggested includes all the athletic, journalistic and musical organization under one general musical head, the present financial officers of these being sub-treasurers of the "University" treasury. In its narrower and more practical form, the plan would include only the base-ball, foot-ball, lacrosse and track athletics...
...seen, the merits of the plan rest mainly on the question, whether or not the consolidation would insure enough more alumni aid to cover the increase in expenditure, the decrease in individual undergraduate interest, and besides give materially increased help to the important non self-supporting organizations. It seems to the outsider as if this would not be likely to ensure and that more damage than good would come from "bunching" interests that are essentially independent...
...writing essays off-hand. Moreover, English XII has been established for those who are unable to take English V; and in both of these elective courses daily themes are required. So in the composition courses there is but little to find fault with. Possibly it might be a good plan to prescribe daily themes for sophomores; but the instructors are in a position to judge better than we of the feasibility of such a requirement...