Word: plans
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...same course of study (which was essentially the case before the advent of the elective system) or were all interested in the same general field of knowledge (as is the case in a technical school), then many if not all of the educational values inherent to the House Plan would be lost. Fortunately, in each House there is a representative proportion of concentrators in all the different fields. This is of the utmost importance. For those who take advantage of the heterogeneous company into which they are thrown, the full meaning of the liberal arts college becomes manifest...
Another report arrived simultaneously with a Faculty Committee at the conclusion that Harvard's curriculum should be broadened and undergraduate specialization decreased. This plan has already received partial approval from the Faculty...
...Democrat of good family and much property who had made a name for himself in the Legislature. With him marched his friends Daniel J. Leary as comptroller and Thomas P. Kelly as executive secretary. They got a new "strong mayor" charter for the city instead of a city-manager plan, which had nearly been adopted. Taxes went up, relief necessitated a $2,000,000 bond issue, but the books of Mayor Hayes & Co. looked fine. Mr. Hayes got elected Lieutenant Governor in 1934 but retained his mayoral job just the same...
...defensive on the other. In 1914 the Germans chose to fight first in the west, failed there, then concentrated on winning a victory in the east before turning to the west again. Now faced with the Maginot Line and the modern French army, Germany may reverse her former plan, strike first in the east, giving her airfleet the job of hanging her western enemies...
...third set of locks (see map). These will: 1) take care of 45,000-ton battleships, now abuilding, which will be too big for the present locks, 2) provide an alternate route if one set of locks should be wrecked by enemy bombing planes. Meantime, the Army announced a plan to spend $53,000,000 on new defenses in the Canal Zone. For the Canal's second quarter-century may be as important in war as its first quarter-century was in commerce...