Word: plans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these societies there are two methods of work. One of them is the method used in those much-lauded societies of the German universities-the seminars. According to this plan the society meets at frequent intervals, and has a discussion on some question assigned beforehand. Each member is expected to prepare something to say, and to ask for information regarding any points unsettled in his mind; and every meeting is made profitable in a high degree to the members...
...Yale News, following the example of the HERALD, has introduced the plan of publishing regular correspondence from other colleges...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The correspondent in this morning's HERALD, who wants reduced rates, is a little more confident of the liberality of the railroad companies than are those who have had experience. He is very much mistaken if he supposes that his plan of getting reduced tickets has never been tried before. Last spring was the first time for some years that the great majority of railroads refused reduced rates to students. When, as usual, students made application at the railroad offices last June for reduced tickets they were told that the companies had decided to make no concessions...
...Banner, Yale's illustrated annual, has recently appeared. The Banner is a publication similar in plan to the Harvard Index, only considerably more comprehensive and pretentious. Illustrations and illustrative headings appear throughout the volume of more or less merit. A catalogue of the students is given, followed by an extensive and useful directory of the college buildings, where the names are arranged by rooms instead of alphabetically. There follow the usual society and athletic statistics, as in the Index, including valuable statistics on the last college base-ball season, compiled by J. C. Morse, a graduate of Harvard and base...
...faculty of Columbia College are in favor of co-education, but have apparently given up the idea of literal co-education, since they new desire to found a new department, with buildings located in the vicinity of the college, to be conducted on a plan similar to that of the Harvard annex...