Word: planning
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...walking in a crowd, should realize that they have more responsibility than at a professional game. Numbers count in cheering as well as enthusiasm, and a half-filled cheering section is nearly as useless as none at all. Let every man who has no good reason for doing otherwise, plan to march to the field and procure a seat in the cheering section at the first sale...
President Eliot's speech was followed by a general discussion of plans for making a closer organization of Harvard graduates. The association elected the following officers: president, H. McK. Landon '92; vice-president, V. M. Porter '92; secretary-treasurer, L. H. Shepherd '00. The plan of the new business course is in the hands of Professor Taussig. Although the business school has for some time been under consideration by the corporation, it has not yet been taken up by the board of overseers, and has not yet been arranged in detail...
...plan proposed for the establishment of a Graduate Business School in the University, announced by President Eliot at the meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs Saturday, is in line with the modern conception of the relation of a college training to practical life. Although a college education is generally admitted to be a valuable asset in all walks of life, it does not generally fit a man to enter at once into business. The college graduate who enters upon a business career at the foot finds himself passed at the beginning by men whose common school education has been supplemented...
...official request for undergraduate opinion upon methods of instruction. Such criticism as that made here would be more likely to win a hearing if the writer would first fortify himself with a knowledge of the facts. Assistants are supervised, are sometimes dropped, sometimes promoted. Departments do meet and plan for the effectiveness of their work. It cannot be more than five or six years since a very large and comprehensive opportunity was given to the undergraduates to criticise the instruction provided for them, though the information thus collected proved less suggestive than had been hoped. If the editorial writer wishes...
...distribution in the fall or turn it over to the University loan collection, we feel sure that many men would prefer to give their furniture to such a committee and forego the absurdly low prices which the professional dealers offer. Without attempting to work out the details of the plan, we do think that it is a practical suggestion, and one which if carried out would materially aid the poorer students in getting through the financial strain of freshman year...