Word: plans
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MEETING of the Junior class was held on Monday evening to adopt some plan for defraying a still outstanding debt of between three and four hundred dollars, incurred by the class crew. It was unanimously decided to raise the necessary funds by subscription, the subscribed amounts to be paid in monthly instalments for the three remaining months of the term, or until the debt is paid...
...courses in each department that appears on the scheme. Yet how often this is done! How many men are there who choose their studies for the Sophomore year without the slightest thought of what they are going to take in the Junior year, and continue their plan by choosing their Junior studies without regard to those that they will select for their Senior year. Hence it is that we find men taking Classics as Sophomores, Modern Languages as Juniors, and finishing with Natural Science when Seniors. The remedy is simple. At the end of the Freshman year, the student, instead...
...would suggest, then, that those interested should circulate a petition for signatures, or else that a book be placed where all could sign their approbation or disapproval of the plan. And let the names be written out, since character as well as number will have its influence here...
...plan, which is being seriously considered, of changing the breakfast hour at Memorial from eight to seven o'clock, with the understanding that the chapel hour shall remain where it now is, seems altogether undesirable. It would cause an immense amount of inconvenience without giving any compensating gain in time. The time allotted for breakfast would be shortened nearly one half, since, in order to reach chapel, one must get to breakfast at least as early as half past seven; and even then there would be no enjoyment of the meal, but a rapid shovelling process, alike disagreeable and detrimental...
...response to this offer when first made was so feeble (seven only complying with it) that it was not thought advisable to carry out the plan. But should a sufficient number apply to make this worth while, there would be opened to the students who take the Fine Arts Electives some advantages that ought not to be rejected...