Word: plans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foremost difficulty with this present system is that, unlike the other College Board Entrance examinations, it is given in two forms; the comprehensives and the old plan yearly tests. The contention of the board that the comprehensives are too difficult may be true in the light of the large number of men entering under this plan forced to take English A1. However, the quality of writing done by the Freshman class does not indicate an over-abundance of knowledge in this subject. On the other hand, the old plan examinations with their annual doses are so narrow in their scope...
...Many complaints have been made against both place," said Henry Penny-packer '88. Chairman of the Committee on Admissions at Harvard when questioned concerning the proposed changes. "The comprehensive plan in particular is criticized because of its extreme difficulty, and we hope to secure some arrangement whereby the two methods may be consolidated...
There has been a great deal of adverse criticism of the system now in use, according to Mr. Pennypacker. Two methods of examination are possible: the restricted plan, whereby a student takes his examination during his preparatory years, and the comprehensive plan, which requires but one exam, and that during the summer of the year in which the student is to enter college...
...economic interdependency of nations, a doctrine which has grown with enormous strides in the decade since the war, was consummated yesterday at Baden-Baden when final details as to the proposed World Bank were issued. If this institution, designed primarily to facilitate execution of the Young reparations plan, works out to its theoretical conclusion, it should stand among the greatest reforms of the twentieth century...
...ultimate success of the experiment is dependent, not so much on the perfection of the machinery of the plan, but rather on the question as to whether the world is ripe for so comprehensive and so sweeping a sacrifice of national interests. The clause which provides that each nation may safeguard its national desires is reminiscent of the liberum veto and is attended with the same dangers. Although only the future can determine the success of the World Bank, it is certain that the plan is among the most progressive experiments...