Word: plans
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...labor of study among the four classes, advantages equal to those gained through this system in manual labor could be secured. Four studies should be pursued in College, one by each class. The question of the nature of these studies excited some debate, but finally the following plan was approved: The Freshman Class should pursue an extended and thorough course in Ethics, the class being divided into five sections. Each section should use text-books in a different language, Greek, Latin, English, German, and French, with an extra first-year honor section in Sanscrit. For the Sophomores the study selected...
...have the University crew row at the class races would certainly improve and add interest to races that are notoriously in need of improvement. Since it has now been decided finally that these men are not to row on their class crews, it would seem that some plan should be proposed that would make provision for them to row together as a crew in the spring and fall. A strong argument in favor of such a plan was suggested at the time of the discussion in the Advocate, - that it is but fair to give men an opportunity of seeing...
...some such plan could be made practicable, it would certainly improve both the University and the class crews, - the University, because the prospect of rowing at the spring races would serve to develop it early in the season, which is well known to be an advantage; the class crews, inasmuch as it would present to each individual member a higher goal to be worked for. So that the height of ambition for a man that stood no chance for the University would not have been reached when he had succeeded in getting on his class crew; while a lasting advantage...
...formed, with constitution and officers, at Hartford on Thursday, February 19. Representatives were present from fourteen colleges: Amherst, Brown, Bowdoin, Cornell, Columbia, Hamilton, Lafayette, Princeton, Rutgers, Syracuse University, Trinity, Williams, Wesleyan, and the University of the City of New York. Colonel Higginson addressed the convention, strongly advocating the proposed plan of literary contests, and advising small beginnings and humble aims. Mr. C. D. Warner and Mark Twain were both present as supporters, and each made an address. A constitution was drawn up to go into effect upon its adoption by five different colleges. The time and place suggested...
...word are separated by a practised ear. The signs are combined according to easily understood principles, and abbreviations, such as small circles and hooks, are added in so methodical a way that the mind is not burdened by their remembrance, but accepts them readily as developments of a general plan. The only arbitrary marks are the "word-signs," which stand for about a hundred of our commonest words, since it is a fact not widely known that one half of all the English spoken and written consists of repetitions of these hundred words...