Word: plans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...half-course would allow many men to consult their taste in this way. Besides, many prefer to have their hardest work during the first half-year, especially as the last half-year is generally largely occupied by outside work in many courses. A general adoption of this plan, in courses where it is possible, would probably commend itself to the body of the students...
...absurdity of the thing would have appeared to all; and it would not have seemed to be a question beyond solution. No, the 'Varsity was allowed the first choice of hours and the other clubs selected in turn the hours left unoccupied. Why cannot we adopt the same plan in the matter of our tennis courts (I use the word "our" advisedly since the courts are not private property)? Let those who hold the courts now select the hours that suit them best for using them, and let the remaining hours be taken by those who sign for them...
Surely the association is equal to this responsibility, especially since the expenses would be prepaid by the players. By this plan the regular players can play in their favorite courts, which are theirs for certain prescribed hours selected by themselves, and the casual or infrequent players may have a chance to play a pleasant game without fear of trespassing. Then we would no longer see the stupid sight of acres of courts empty, but forbidden to a large number of men needing and anxious for the exercise and amusement which these courts might afford them...
...letter from J. G. Whittier, one of the corporation, to another member of the corporation. From present appearances no change will be made in favor of co-education. Of course there is a difference of opinion on the subject. The majority, however, are opposed to the movement. The plan of an "annex" is regarded favorably, but to admit women on equal grounds and to mingle them with the other sex indiscriminately is not regarded as desirable...
...delivered an elaborate argument against co-education, covering all the points very fully It has since been published in pamphlet form for distribution. The students of the university are almost unanimously opposed to co-education. At a meeting of the trustees, a committee report was presented setting forth a plan for the education of women, by which they will receive the same course of instruction as the male students, but at a different time and place. The female students will also receive degrees on the same terms as the males. The report will be acted upon at the next meeting...