Word: plans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...CRIMSON.- A recent description before the Historical Society, of the "machinery" by which Mr. H. H. Bancroft carries on his investigation into the material for the history of the Pacific coast, suggests to me the application of some of the details of Mr. Bancroft's methods in the proposed plan for making and indexing newspaper cuttings according to topics. Mr. Bancroft, it is said, makes use of innumerable small paper bags, indexed by topics, and filed alphabetically, in which to store the vast mass of abstracts and quotations from books and manuscripts which he designs to use later...
...order to bring the matter into some practical shape I would urge upon the Finance Club and Historical Society, as including men in their number who would be most likely to be interested in making these slips, to take the initiative and give the plan a trial. Both these clubs also contain the younger and more energetic of the instructors in their departments among their members. Will not the clubs, therefore, each appoint a committee of members and instructors, which, together as a joint committee, will supervise the matter and give the plan a trial? Let the committee receive...
...importance as an adjunct in the instruction of some of the courses in which the work is largely arranged by topics, for the instructors in these courses to see to it directly that all notable newspaper articles illustrating their subjects be brought within reach of their pupils by this plan. I would incidentally suggest that a selection of topics from among those suggested to forensic writers, might form a basis on which to start in choosing topics for slips. It might be of practical benefit in the several theme and thesis courses also, to prepare a bag for slips...
...action of another professor during the first half year in the same course had not been so diametrically opposed to the present method of teaching. The course in English VII. purposes to give those who elect it a view of English literature during the eighteenth century. The plan pursued during the first half year kept this idea steadily in view, and the course of lectures proved to be one of the most instructive and exhaustive that could be expected. Several prominent authors were considered, and the students exhibited great interest in the work of the course. The work...
...Boston Herald says that the Brown University four is rowing 18,000 strokes daily on the machines. At thirty strokes a minute this would make ten hours steady work per day. Can it be that Brown has adopted President Eliot's "University" plan, and is turning out one-sided specialists instead of men with a liberal education? The newspaper which says that specialization is "crumbling the walls of scholastic learning" at Harvard, should look into this affair at Brown...