Word: plans
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...College books are becoming fashionable A Yale Book, edited by Henry C. Kingsley is announced. It will be on the same general plan as the Harvard Book, and the first volume will be ready in June...
...thus see a direct opposition of interests between the men who row for their own pleasure in the clubs, and the crew on which depends the honor of the University in boating. Now I wish to propose a plan for a University boat-club, which shall make the interests of all common, and which shall be a boat-club in fact as well as in name, giving every member the opportunity of rowing. This plan could not be carried into effect immediately, but as soon as the clubs have bought and paid for the boats they now hire...
...advantages of this plan are obvious. It economizes both boats and money, and encourages rowing inasmuch as it gives every one who has subscribed ten dollars to the University crew an opportunity to row, while at the same time the number who actually row would not be in creased enough to make the boats crowded. A seat for every third or fourth man could be provided easily...
...been so much divided by the "unpleasantness " arising from this year's elections, that even the usual amount of class-feeling does not exist; accordingly less interest than ever before will be taken in any class work, and an undue proportion of "lives" must inevitably be lost. The plan suggested by our correspondent of having a class-book edited by the Secretary and not by the class at large would have worked much more satisfactorily. We speak, however, from our fears and not at all from our hopes. It is extremely desirable that a class should have a full...
...desire to enter into an elaborate discussion on the wisdom of prohibiting the holders of scholarships from those pleasures whose only harm consists in intemperate use, we will merely say that we think the majority of experienced, fair-minded men would unite in disapproving such a course. The plan of college assistance is, as we understand it, to smooth the rugged path of the poor but promising student, so that that part of his energy which would otherwise be spent in overcoming the difficulties of the journey to Parnassus may be devoted to intellectual effort; and, up to a certain...