Word: planning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Eliot will give the third lecture of the Social Problems series in New Lecture Hall tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. His subject will be "A Successful Profit-Sharing Plan." The lecture will be open only to members of the University. Professor F.W. Taussig will introduce President Eliot...
...movement that began here at Harvard to bring the college into closer relations with preparatory and public schools throughout the country and to set the entrance examinations so that a general knowledge of certain broad fields of study would suffice to pass them. The successful working of the new plan at Harvard was shown the other day when President Lowell's report stated that four-fifths of the men admitted under the new plan were from public schools from all parts of the country. Yale's move in this direction comes as a result of the demands of secondary schools...
...elasticity sought in the new Yale plan is to be secured by three innovations. First, examinations are to be fewer in number and more general, while strength in one subject will offset weakness in another; second, the school record of a candidate will be received and allowed a certain amount of consideration; and thirdly, in cases of unusual ability, the recommendation of a school principal will count for those candidates whose subjects of study may have differed from those prescribed for admission. It is to be noted that those changes secure essentially the same advantages as have been introduced under...
President Eliot will deliver the third of the Social Problems lectures in New Lecture Hall on Tuesday, March 4, at 4.30 o'clock. The subject will be "A Successful Profit-Sharing Plan." It has been nearly two years since President Eliot delivered a lecture of this series. His topic then was "The Collective Remedy...
...somewhat different from former ones in the Forum, in that several questions will be presented for consideration. The work of each of the standing committees of the Council will be taken up. Some of the resolutions to be presented follow: Should not the committee on publications submit some plan for the merger of all the undergraduate publications in the College (exclusive of the CRIMSON and the Lampoon) into one really representative Harvard magazine? Should there be any change in the selection or organization of the Student Council? Should not the Committee on Scholarship submit a plan for regulating undergraduate extra...