Word: plans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: You have mentioned the project for a freshman class supper. Will you permit me to urge it? I know that it is out of all precedent, but is that a fatal objection? Is it really any objection? The reasons for the plan are these: The freshmen of '85 have, it is undoubtedly true, proved themselves dilatory in several respects. We have, to a certain extent, (though for fair reasons) been somewhat backward in contributing to sports. It is doubtful whether we will be a "high stand" class, either, or will produce many honor...
...difficult to see what objection the faculty can offer to the plan of holding examinations for conditioned men of other classes as well as of the freshmen in the fall. Many men who are so unfortunate as to receive conditions, would be very willing to devote a considerable portion of their summer vacation in preparing for it if the chance were only offered them; and it would certainly be much more preferable than the present plan, where men are prevented from properly preparing themselves by the pressure of other duties at the beginning of the year...
...when boys came to college at an age at which they are now not out of the high school; they seem superfluous when the age of a graduating class averages, as with us last year, nearly twenty-four years. In dispensing with such incentives we are but following the plan of German Universities, and apparently neither they nor we have any reason to complain of the effect upon scholarship...
Cornell has commenced to issue a quarterly library bulletin called the Library, somewhat after the plan of the Harvard Bulletin...
...university buildings are so largely dependent upon Fresh Pond water for their supply, it seems strange that no plan has as yet been discussed by which a plentiful supply could be obtained independent of the Cambridge Water Works. Recently several factories and private citizens have caused artesian wells to be sunk, and the result has been so favorable that the idea of such a well for the yard naturally suggests itself. We all know the disadvantages of Fresh Pond water for drinking purposes, but the most urgent necessity of a plentiful supply of water is in case of fire. During...