Word: planning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...orchestra? In certain other colleges the official maintenance of a representative orchestra, constant participation and faithful performance in which receives academic credit, is not a new idea, and such orchestra-work can be found listed in their catalogues among the regular courses of their Musical Departments. If such a plan were to be adopted in our College, not only would a higher standard be set by the academic supervision in the character of the program, the discipline, and the technical performance of our amateur players, but it would also attract the many undergraduates of no inferior ability who have until...
...failure of forty-six Princeton students at mid-years has led the faculty to institute a new-plan to keep men up in their studies. Twenty-five of the forty-six were sophomores as against sixteen out of forty-four men dropped at Harvard. The report of the Princeton faculty committee on examinations shows that in the majority of failures this year the students dropped had been carrying conditions from previous years, especially in the sophomore class where freshman conditions hung over the failures. The faculty has therefore instituted a series of uniform tests during the course of the term...
...aims and difficulties of Harvard students and a new plan for a credit system were discussed at a social service conference in Phillips Brooks House last evening. About seventy-five leaders from settlement houses, social service clubs and organizations, and from churches gave short speeches concerning the present status of the work of Harvard...
...undergraduate department, there is a passage on Freshman dormitories which everyone and particularly the opponents of the plan should read and digest. Of course the question of its value is one which will never be entirely settled; but on one side there stands the argument, far outweighing the cry against it as the end of Harvard individualism, that "By being brought at once into the compact body of the class they (the Freshmen) can be placed in a large stream of college life flowing in a larger channel than any smaller group they meet today." And then there...
Carrying out the plan of having everything done by the class there is a full set of Sophomore stage managers headed by W. C. Boyden, Jr., with the following assistants: H. L. M. Cole, E. A. LeRoy, 3rd, J. E. Lancaster, C. B. Mc- Laughlin, R. H. Norweb, A. Rodgers, and R. S. Sturgis. The scenery has been designed by H. F. Weston...