Word: planning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...happenings than the great majority of students. To remedy this defect in our education and to give men a clear understanding of those events which soon pass into history, it has been proposed by some that a course in contemporaneous history should be given. The great objection to this plan, which naturally arises, is the folly of attempting to do in this way just what the newspapers are every day doing. The lecturer must depend upon the paper for his knowledge, and his work would be little more than a culling of news from its columns, something, it might...
...generally conceded that the evils of our marking system can only be remedied by supplanting percentages by a plan of ranking by classes, e.g. "excellent," "very good," "good," etc., as is the custom in German High schools. The great difficulty in this innovation lies in the matter of scholarships. If our professors have not sufficient insight to be able to judge of the merits of the students taking their courses, without having recourse to the percentage system, why let them keep it up for those men who are trying for scholarships. But against this it would be urged that...
...faculty and the conference committee put their heads together in wise deliberation for weeks and months to come, they will have to decide on this or some very similar plan at the end of all their labors...
Moreover, the plan of the prescribed themes and forensics has been so arranged that the students as a whole do more and better work in this branch. Then, too, electives have been added, not only in literature, but in composition. All these reforms have acted directly upon our college papers by bettering them...
...many reasons, an extension of the plan of the Conference Committee would be desirable. As we said yesterday, the discussions of the present body have an immediate effect only upon its members. It might improve us all, if the whole college would now and then resolve itself into a committee of conference. The frank examination of such a matter as the prayer question by the students and the governing bodies, in common discussion, would be advantageous to both sides. Those in power would see more fully the undergraduate opinion. While we, who do not always refuse to be guided...