Word: plans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Noble, for '85; Claflin, Huddleston, Merriam and R. D. Smith for '86 ; H . L . Clark, F. S. Coolidge, Herron, and H . E. Peabody, for '87, and Garrison, Lund, Pierce, and E. B. Thayer for '88 . The prime question for which the meeting was called , a definite plan of representation for permanent conferences , was not decided , although the men talked for nearly two hours , and it was thought best not to publish any of the debate on that subject until after the adjourned meeting , when something more definite will be made public . One thing , however , was done , which the meeting thought...
...last thing in the nature of reform is the discussion of the requirements for admission, which is now going on in the meetings of the faculty. That a fight would soon be made by the socalled opponents of Greek has been expected for some time. The plans of these liberals are rapidly taking definite shape, and what they propose to do in case they find themselves in the majority, is stated on the first page. Whether this plan will work the most good to the university many will no doubt question; but that it will attract a large number...
...This last is the most important feature of the plan. Whenever a question is to come up before the Conference Committee, the committee of the faculty, after consulting with the members of the student committee who are especially interested in the question under consideration, are to invite such students as are in their opinion best fitted to discuss, and most interested in the particular question which is to be brought up at the meeting. This obviates the difficulty of having so many permanent delegates on the committee as to make it cumbersome. The number need not be limited, but four...
...much for the plan in detail. There may be objections to it, but there are many evident advantages. In the first place that which is of prime importance, it would give a representative body of students, comprising as it would much of the athletic skill, the literary ability, and the scholarship of the college. The students would, directly or indirectly, take part in the election of nearly all the delegates. Secondly, the classes would be represented according to their seniority; for the offices of the athletic organizations and the positions on the several papers are mostly held by upper-class...
...plan can be modified, perhaps, to good effect, but the main features of it are such as to give a representative and experienced delegation, easy to elect, and admirably fitted to serve as a medium between students and faculty...