Word: plans
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...years, to make as many rules as possible for the guidance of students, and to expect them blindly to obey. In German institutions, on the other hand, the greatest possible liberty is given the student, and the formation of his character is left to depend entirely upon himself. Both plans are open to censure. The first, by depriving the student of all voluntary power, does not teach him to rely upon himself. The second gives him so much liberty,- at the youthful and inexperienced age at which most students enter,-that opportunities are thrown away, and habits are thoughtlessly formed...
...direction is reform more urgently needed than in recitations,-the plan of conducting them, the system of work, and the requirements as to attendance. I submit to whom it may concern the following plan...
While such a plan as the above could do no harm, it might do much good. The first result would be to raise the general average, and hence the standard of scholarship. Every one would know at least once in two months just how he was doing, and would be stimulated to improvement. The professors would be urged to do their best, because "A" men would not attend their recitations unless they considered they really could not afford to be absent. Such a plan unites the best features of German, American, and English universities. It gives a man every privilege...
...following plan of disposing of the Boat house seems now possible to be carried out, and has certainly met the approval of the "authorities...
...this plan the person most interested in collecting the money will collect it, and those paying will pay it just at the moment that they reap the benefits of it; both sound principles of political economy...