Word: plans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suggestion has been made that the University crew, on the day of the class races, give an exhibition row over the course in company with the class crews. There are certain objections to this plan, but none, we think, insuperable. Its adoption would certainly make the event of the class races even more interesting and exciting than it already has assurance of being. The suggestion is certainly worthy of consideration...
...believe the plan, recently introduced at the University of Michigan, at Bowdoin, and at some other colleges, of admitting students upon the presentation of a diploma from any duly approved preparatory school, has been found to be very successful and satisfactory in its workings. It manifestly does away with many of the terrors and well known disadvantages of the ordinary entrance examination; and any means of reforming the evils of the present examination system is to be welcomed. It is to be hoped that Harvard will soon see her way to adoption, wholly or in part, of this or some...
...take any action in the matter, from the fact that not a sufficient number of the committee were present. The book proposed is certainly something that is desirable, and even needed, and we trust that enough interest will henceforth be shown to enable the directors to at least plan the work that must be done, in order to give the college a book of songs more characteristic and individual than those at present contained in the song books; and what is more important, something more recent than Dr. Watt's hymns...
...college rooms is appropriated towards reducing the price of board, and the actual cost per month, after the reduction, is divided among the students. So liberal an arrangement could not be otherwise than popular, and the accommodations of the hall are full, thus securing a permanent success for the plan. The board given is excellent, at an estimated cost of about $3 per week...
...great laxity of public opinion in this respect is perhaps the case ; and it may be that public sentiment needs to be reinforced and strengthened in the matter. If so, it is time that a decided stand and active measures be taken to work a reform. That such a plan as that proposed by the Harvard Total Abstinence League is altogether the best, we are not yet convinced It is a very difficult matter for one to make up one's mind to a decisive stand on the question. Colleges do not harbor drunkards, and total abstinence is preeminently...