Word: plans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conducive to health, especially as regards the use of tobacco and alcohol. These things being so, what is the effect of exercise on the heart? As the heart affects, and is affected by the whole body, it cannot be taken strictly by itself, nor would such a plan be wise. The first effect of exercise on the heart is to increase the number of its pulsations, and the force of each individual one. As a consequence, the flow of blood through the body is increased, including the heart itself, and the waste of the system is washed out more completely...
...spend their time in raising the standard of knowledge and incidentally improving the marking system. It is vastly more important that men should acquire much useful knowledge than that they should get high marks. If nothing more than an improvement of the marking system be desired, the best plan would be to abolish all examinations and let the students mark themselves. The method, perhaps, sounds revolutionary and visionary; but it can easily be shown to be the best and simplest plan, and one which would prove perfectly feasible. The great trouble with it is that it offers no incentive...
...This plan is already, with some notifications, in use at the German universities, though there theses are required not oftener than twice a year; but this seems unadvisable at Harvard, because the men in the two lower classes at any rate have not sufficient command over the English language, nor training in the use thereof, to enable them to produce a finished piece of work of the requisite length. Besides, if each theses were required only twice a year, there would be altogether too much of what is now the customary thing, namely, everything being left to the last minute...
...that the course be six times a week, from quarter of nine to nine every morning. The authorities to be used, are the Herald, the Globe, or the Journal. For those who wish to go deeper into the subject, the Nation had best be consulted once a week. This plan I am sure would please everybody, especially the anti-Chapel agitators, and those who are anxious to do away with the present marking system, for in this course there would be no marks given, or no examinations...
...candidates for the Columbia University and freshman crews have now been in training for three weeks. Strict training will not begin until after the semi-annual examinations. The work this year is to be conducted on much the same plan as it was last year; the only difference being that more attention will be paid to running than was then. The crews have abandoned the old gymnasium which was not large enough for their use and are now practicing in Wood's Gymnasium, hired especially for the purpose. This arrangement not only gives the boating men more room, but allows...