Word: plans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...forensics since they are regularly counted as part of our college work, but a word may be said in reference to theses and hour examinations. Conceive them as best one may, the latter are certainly no more than necessary evils, though they serve a recognized purpose; any feasible plan for their abolition, there fore ought to be welcomed. Now during the present stress of work a thesis and an examination are often due almost simultaneously in the same course, and this it seems to us is distinctly rushing college work. It is the purpose of the examination to test...
...proposed to start a school of music at Yale. The plan adopted proposes a new department with the requisite corps of instructors, apparatus, and a building not inferior to any of the great conservatories in Germany. President Dwight is heartily in favor of the plan...
...their practice games with the 'Varsity is ample assurance of both the auccess and interest of the series, and we are sure men will be fully repaid for their trouble in wetnessing the games. But the series needs our attention on other grounds than its interest merely. The plan now carrying on is deserving of attention as the first auccessful attempt to organize a series of class games, and the members of the teams are to be congratulated on their efforts. The energy which has been displayed certainly augurs well for Harvard football...
...example, for a student to receive a magna cum laude although he has not received As in half of his college work-that is, by receiving the equivalent of fifteen full As and Bs. And this is only an instance. The same general fairness runs though the entire plan. The arrangement is on all accounts an estimable one, and ought to receive the praise of every serious student...
...always been valuable but during the last three years its scope has been much enlarged by the formation of special reference libraries in the various recitation buildings. The work in the German, French, Greek, Natural History, Political Economy and History departments has been greatly facilitated by the new plan. It is now announced that another special reference library has been given to the college for the use of students in Philosophy 11, the Ethics of Social Reform. The new library is in Lower Dane Hall and will be open to all students. It contains several hundred volumes, selected and arranged...