Word: planning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...parts of Soldiers Field. When the committee, eager to begin this work, had paid the last dollar due for the Stadium, the class of 1879 proposed to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary by putting a colonnade round the top of the Stadium and thus carrying out something like the original plan. It suggested that the Athletic Association should pay twenty-five thousand dollars toward the proposed addition, and that the class should pay the rest. Generous as the suggestion was, the committee did not at first feel authorized to assume a new debt. At last the Corporation, the committee...
...completed. The most important article of the report is that devoted to the choice of electives. The purpose of the modifications of the elective system are, as stated by President Lowell in the report, to require every student to know a little of everything and something well, and to plan his whole College curriculum seriously...
...changes are now in substance complete. The object to be attained was two-fold: first, to require every student to make a choice of electives that will secure a systematic education, based on the principle of knowing a little of everything and something well; second, to make the student plan his college curriculum seriously, and plan it as a whole. This is pre-supposed by the theory of the elective system, but, in fact, it is by no means always done, as is shown by the very large number of changes of electives, and often radical changes, made...
...courses in some one field. Distribution is a less simple matter. It has been sesured by classifying all the subjects taught in college among four general groups, and requiring every student to take something in each group. In order to attain the second object, that of making a student plan his course of studies in college as a whole and under the best advice, it is provided that at the end of his Freshman year, when he may be presumed to have acquired some familiarity with college work, he shall present to his adviser a program of study...
...Such preference will, if possible, be followed. The line of study in which a man is inclined to concentrate, should also be indicated. When an adviser is appointed, although consultation with him is not required, Freshmen are urged to see him as soon as possible and form a plan for making their work for their degree systematic...