Word: plans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...telegraph the result of the voting each day during the fair to the CRIMSON. Dr. Knight states that subscriptions for votes may be sent to him at No. 41 East 12th St., or at the Harvard Club, No. 11 West 22nd St., New York. If anyone can suggest any plan for furthering Harvard's chances in the matter, the Editors of the CRIMSON will be happy to hear from...
...quotations which we find in various authors, and by its influence on Greek art and literature. In this epic we find the determination of Zeus to relieve the earth of its surplus population by a destructive war given as the cause of the Trojan war. In furtherance of this plan, Thetis was given in marriage to Peelers, that their son Achilles might be the bulwark of the Greeks. This marriage was one of the episodes which particularly attracted the vase-painters, and was subjected to endless variations in artistic handling. The Judgment of Paris was also a favorite subject...
...inclined to loaf the greater part of the year and to grind up before the examination just enough to enable him to pass. As a result, the writer urges, a few days after the examinations he knows as little as he did before. The adoption of the hour examination plan would prevent this evil and would cause systematic work...
...This plan is a good one and eventually must be adopted as one of the necessary reforms of the college. The present system of examinations is comparatively worthless. It allows a man to grind up in a single night a whole half year's work, and the result is he remembers just enough to pass a fair examination the next day, and afterwards knows nothing about his subject. It is the exception for such men to get much lasting benefit from their college career. The man who comes to college simply to have a good time, and who does...
...upon ourselves to place a blue-book containing a petition at Leavitt and Peirce's for the signatures of all those who are interested in the matter. For the benefit of those who did not see the communication and editorial referred to we would say that the proposed plan is for the college to petition the President and Fellows to change the beginning of the spring recess from the day before Fast Day to the Saturday before Easter Sunday, thus allowing us Easter Sunday and Easter week at home. We have heard so many men express a desire...