Word: plans
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DURING the somewhat heated discussions of college polities which were rife at the time of the Senior Class elections, it was frequently urged that certain measures were objectionable because they were not democratic. This appeared to be considered by many as a final argument. The moment that any plan was suspected of a character not thoroughly popular, that plan was ipso facto condemned. Good or bad, it was at once abandoned by the majority...
...PROPOSITION has been made that arches should be placed under the two bridges nearest the boat-house, and the piles which now support them should be removed. The advantages of this plan are obvious. Should it be adopted, the ordinary scratch-race course would be much improved. As the races are, with the exception of single and double sculls, rowed now with coxswains, there would be no difficulty in having the boats shoot the bridges, one boat under the draw and the others under the proposed arches. The only disadvantage of the plan is the difficulty of carrying it into...
Whatever a Senior may think as to the little benefit he is likely to receive from a certain recitation, or whatever his theory of voluntary recitations by which he may regard the average attendance as in no sense indicative of the success of the plan, he is bound to remember that the authorities, having no other obvious criterion, have decided that attendance is to be held the proof and guaranty of the system...
...classes by society lines. The experiment, however, is to be judged in the light of former elections and in view of the fundamental principles of human nature. It is absurd to apply the touchstone of perfection to a college election. As in municipal elections, the essence of the plan is the formation of parties, and, in fact, the best selection is possible only when competition is active. The vice, it is claimed, lies in this, that the issues are not raised on the vital points of ability and fitness, but on artificial considerations, as society standing or what...
...truth is that they do not understand the real value in daily life of what may be called artistic surroundings. It is by no means necessary to have every stick of furniture carved on the very nicest plan that the system of Eastlake has produced; nor to arrange every corner of a room with a studied attention to the picturesque, which would make it look like a magnified reproduction of a modern genre picture. But it is, if not absolutely necessary, at least highly desirable to hang upon your walls pictures that will suggest ideas; pictures at which...