Word: plans
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Yale Book, on the plan of the Harvard Book, published two years ago, is soon to appear...
...gown. The attempt, however, proved futile, because the few men interested in the matter allowed the opportunity of making the change to slip away, through their inactivity in canvassing the subject, and in bringing its merits before the majority, who looked with the utmost indifference upon any plan for the restoration of a costume eminently that of scholars, and in perfect accord with academic exercise. This inactivity on the one hand and indifference on the other having resulted in the abandonment of the project last year, it now remains for the Senior class of this year to decide whether they...
...large number have signified their hearty approval of it. From this it would seem, that if all would give the matter their careful consideration, the advantages of the proposed change (even looking at it entirely from an aesthetic point of view), would be apparent, and the execution of the plan could not fail to be accomplished...
...matter. On Commencement Day, however, the wearing of gowns is obligatory. By no means do all the students own gowns, but the majority, when occasion demands, hire them from the janitor, who always keeps them on hand, the charge therefor being $1.50 apiece. It seems as though a plan like this might be successfully introduced here in Cambridge, and be a source of advantage to both owner and student, for the former would gain a large percentage on his outlay, and the latter would obtain the necessary garments at a trifling expense. The cost of a cap and gown...
...three of his electives, and but forty-nine in his fourth study, loses his degree. Sixty per cent is not the average required, as has been reported, but the Senior who gets a degree without an average of sixty for the year will have calculated with marvellous closeness. The plan, in fact, is to have our last year made up of "all work and no play." Complaints come to us already that the conclusion of the nursery proverb will be fulfilled in our case. The University will lose that social tone for which it has so long been justly famous...