Word: plans
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...plan of the book is new, and its style very neat. The gentlemen who have given their time and trouble to its preparation deserve our gratitude. The Index can be found at Richardson...
...that a new word to express it, or at least an old one with increased meaning, has come into use, In direct contrast to such a spirit is the system of rewards and punishments which Harvard is fast shaking off, - and of such a system is not the proposed plan a natural outgrowth? A few would be made happy by outstripping their competitors, most of whom would, of course, be disappointed and disgusted with the scholastic or literary pursuits which had failed to accomplish for them the desired object, while the great body of the students would be affected...
...noticed that the two colleges - Princeton and Williams - which lead off the attempt to establish the Intercollegiate literary contests, have not been among the foremost to transform school-boys into students. The President of one of them, who is understood to be strongly in favor of the proposed plan, has already made widely known his views upon College discipline, and it is not unnatural that he should now wish to lead into the arena his well-tamed pupil, moulded to his own sweet will, and fully crammed for the conflict. Let us leave them in undisputed possession of the field...
...incursions of random, guerilla-like questions. But if the movement of the enemy is merely a feint, we are liable to be utterly conquered by his victorious march through a country only defended by its ordinary militia. It is this danger which makes most students averse to the plan of learning thoroughly any particular part of a course to the exclusion of the rest...
...objection to this plan is the apparent injustice to any Juniors and Sophomores who may elect Senior studies. Will not the absence of Seniors throw the work on the other classmen, and if a Junior or Sophomore has brains enough to carry a Senior elective, ought he not to have any privileges granted the men for whom the course was established...