Word: plans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...national conference of free-traders at Detroit yesterday adopted a plan of organization and issued an address to the people, setting forth the free trade principles...
...believe that the plan which Harvard is to adopt, of offering certain half courses to be completed by a half year's work, is a wise one and is a movement in the right direction. The advantages it offers are obvious, and it is certainly to be hoped that the experiment next year will meet with complete success. If the plan does prove successful there would seem to be no reason why it should not be largely extended and made to include under its operations many other courses. Indeed, it is a question that may well be asked...
There are some arguments to be advanced, it is true, in favor of dwelling for a longer period on certain subjects and of more thoroughly digesting them, which would not be possible under the new plan, but courses where this treatment is preferable are comparatively few in number and could easily be rearranged so as to harmonize with the new plan. At present, as a matter of fact, the majority of our courses are divided into two partially or completely distinct portions by the present system of semi-annual examinations. Why could not this division be carried one step further...
...SCOTLAND. By Thomas W. Silloway and Lee L. Powers. Boston: A. Williams & Co." This book is a pleasant account of a journey through England, Ireland and Scotland, which has grown out of a series of articles published in one of the Boston papers. The introductory notice sufficiently explains the plan of the book: "Instead of simply recording personal observations, the labor was extended by the incorporation of historic and biographical facts, the authors hoping that, while their work would be valuable and interesting as a compend to those familiar with the facts, it would also be entertaining and instructive...
...will be placed at Bartlett's on Thursday, May 24th, in which every senior who desires less than a package is requested to sign his name, and to state before June 1st the number of tickets of each kind he will require. The committee hope that by adopting this plan they will remove all necessity for the private sale of tickets to members of the class and so prevent all speculation in them. The price of tickets will be: Yard tickets, 25 cents; Memorial, 50 cents; Tree, 75 cents; Saunders, 75 cents. The price of a package of tickets will...