Word: plans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...quantity of books at its usual reduction, estimate how long a use each one would endure, and let them to members at a price which would cover the cost of the book at the end of the estimated time, and also pay something to the society. This is a plan which has successfully been adopted in several young ladies' boarding schools that I have heard of; and I think it only needs a fair trial to prove it a success here...
...kindness of the instructor in making this provision for the convenience of his section is highly appreciated, and the plan seems such a peculiarly happy one that we are led to ask why it cannot be adopted in other courses. Most instructors at the beginning of the year make a general, and sometimes rather vague announcement of the methods they intend to pursue in conducting their courses, but the men soon forget what has been told them, and there is always a feeling of uncertainty about what is going to take place in one's course, which...
...genuine interest. The secret of the cure for this evil seems to be in the fact that it is the students who determine the amount of work required in each elective. A change suggested in the recent discussion of the question in our columns recognizes this fact. The plan is to represent the value of each elective by the ratio between the average marks which the members of that elective received in their freshman year, and their average marks in the elective. Some electives might thus be valued as high as 120 per cent., others...
...faculty is making a new distribution of studies, required by the addition of new branches. An effort is being made to erect a building for the accommodation of the Art School, at an expense of $40,000, to enable work in that department to begin in September. The plan devised by the committee of Eastern colleges for avoiding excesses in intercollegiate athletics was laid before the board and adopted, with a statement that Harvard had done likewise. The president announced that a number of lectures would be delivered in the college this year on pedagogics, with a view of training...
...congratulate themselves that in no point in the society's history has it been found necessary to levy an assessment. The stability and usefulness of the society as a college institution is now well assured. The society has been run on a close financial basis, as is the safer plan, and therefore has often been hampered by lack of capital with which to conduct its operations. It has always, however, been able to profit by the courtesy of affiliated tradesmen, and thus has not seriously suffered from this cause. It would be much better if it had a small capital...