Word: plans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...similar dilettante branches, although it is, perhaps, true that a student who pursues this course would get about as much good from these studies as he would get from any others. Now there are two kinds of modified election which I indorse. I believe that it is a good plan to give students a choice between a number of different courses each made up of studies which he is obliged to follow when he selects that course; and secondly, I believe in a fixed curriculum of required studies, to which a student may add a certain number of studies...
...Club at its last meeting voted to have a shingle, designed by members of the club. The designs will be on exhibition in the rooms, and that receiving the most votes, will be adopted. To make the plan more popular, a prize has been offered to the member whose design is successful...
This, in brief, is the new scheme of self-support inaugurated by our sister college at Ithaca. It has many points to commend it. We should like to see the plan tried at Yale. If it succeeded there, we might venture to try it ourselves...
...sketch of the changes which have taken place in the college curriculum since 1823. From this it appears that the development of the elective system has been slowly going on ever since that remote period, though of late years greater strides have been taken toward the completion of the plan, as is shown by the fact that in 1871, only 14 years ago, the number of hours of elective work per week was but 168, as against 382 hours of electives, from which students are now allowed to chose their work...
...These plans are very attractive, and would effect a great improvement upon the present condition of things; but it would be a better plan to convert the old Gore Hall into a fireproof bookstack, and to build a new reading-room on the north side, and so attached that no reasonable objection could be taken to lighting the room. Such a reading-room ought to have seats for at least 250 persons, and should be provided with coat-rooms and dressing-rooms, that students who have no rooms in Cambridge might find themselves comfortably provided for at the reading-room...