Word: planning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plan for the election of a captain of next year's foot-ball, as decided upon by Mr. Kimball, meets our hearty approval. The selection of a captain thoroughly representative of our foot-ball interests and competent to train an eleven is assured. Although no precedent exists for such a method of election, the circumstances fully warrant the step taken by last year's captain. It now remains for the foot-ball men to lay aside all personal feeling and elect a man who will lead Harvard's eleven to victory next fall...
...shown by our experience to be well founded. Doubtless a few indolent persons will elect what they regard as easy work. But they will even then accomplish as much as they do when forced to attempt hard work, which they never perform except in the most perfunctory manner. No plan will make the college career of lazy men brilliant. The advantage to industrious men of generous liberty of choice of studies, after they have made a fair advance in fundamental and elementary studies, is very pronounced. And the work of a college should be organized to meet the needs...
...gymnasium at the University of Pennsylvania has been formally thrown open. The general plan of the building is similar to the one at Harvard, and the apparatus is of the latest and most approved pattern. The gymnasium is hardly large enough for the growing needs of the University, but all the appointments are perfect. December 3rd, Dr. J. Williams While lectured to the students on the uses of the several appliances, and the best course to pursue in developing all the muscles of the body. Next term compulsory exercise will be enforced upon all undergraduates, but at present...
...operation by the present accommodations. In a few years, if the university grows as it has grown in the past, one of three things is necessary, Memorial must be enlarged, two sets of dining hours must be introduced, or a new dining association must be formed. The last plan is most feasible. If a small dining association could be formed and provided with the proper outfit, and managed so as to meet the demands of the richer students, - a standard of board being provided that would cost $6.00 or $7.00, - Memorial would be relieved of the coming overflow. When Memorial...
...University is on the German plan, that is, it has four schools, Philology, Medicine, Law and Theology. In addition to these, there are the Scientific Department and the Astronomical Observatory of Athens. The departments of Law and Medicine are the largest, followed by Philology, Science and Theology in the order named...