Word: plans
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...appears, the plan is to go even further. Sometime in May the university will publish an extensive reading list in American history, economics, government, literature, and other phases of our national development. These lists of recommended books will be distributed to citizens throughout the country. Individual study will be supplemented next winter when a series of lectures on contemporary American problems and their relations to the past will be given by first-rank authorities from Harvard and other American universities. Both undergraduates and the public will be invited to attend these lectures, and later to measure their progress by taking...
Authorities consider the three-year plan an experiment. Dean Hudnut has indicated that the appropriation may be increased if interest warrants it. Members of the faculty of the school are doubtful about the number of students who will be attracted to city planning next fall, because no gnage of popularity on the basis of previous years is available. The school, an offshoot of the Department of Landscape Architecture, was first set up as a separate department seven years ago, financed by Rockefeller money. When this money was no longer available, the school went into a scholarly hibernation during which...
...sports are permanently to be retained, and if a successful intra-mural program is to be developed, President Conant must propagate with all his energies the endowment ideal among the alumni, and it is to be hoped that not a few benevolent philanthropists will be uncovered to put the plan on its feet...
More important, perhaps, than the outside appeal of this plan, is the fact that it emphasizes the value of furthering a pursuit of study beyond the mere bounds of degree requirements. Rather than assume an A. B. degree to be synonymous with complete education, the committee responsible for the plan intends to stimulate study after degree requirements are completed, as well as study in fields not connected with the student's life work...
Activities of the P.B.H. law organization include the arranging for Langdell lecturers during the year, the management of a loan library of 500 books, and, recently, the promotion of a plan for better athletic facilities for the graduate student. While nothing has yet been done officially about this move there has been widespread interest among the students in the Law School...