Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entrants will read the papers they plan to deliver on Class Day if they win the contest. All the papers give an amusing retrospect of the Class of '39's last four years...
When professors and counsellors meet this week to settle the fate of the American History Plan they can take the easy way out by agreeing to muddle along for another year, or perhaps for four years, as Professor Jones has suggested. But the Plan's California angels are not going to continue shelling out twenty-five thousand dollars a year if no concrete results can be shown before 1942. The History Program must be oriented in one of two opposite directions: into the formal curriculum, or into a new realm of extra-curricular education...
...continuation of the Plan on an extra-curricular basis also has its drawbacks. It may reach only a handful of students each year. And it will inevitably face stiff competition from other activities. On the other hand here is a chance for a new technique in teaching, freed from marking, credits, and formal sanctions. The increasing participation in the Program during this year augurs well for the future...
...upperclassmen let the Plan be an experiment in self-education. President Conant himself has said the student must "learn that formal instruction is no necessary part of the educational process." The study of American civilization is particularly fitted for such an experiment; in seeking behind his personal experience for the underlying forces that make American civilization, an undergraduate may learn that not all knowledge is to be found in textbooks, syllabi, and lecture notes...
This mighty musical meal over, Cincinnatians stretched, patted their stomachs, paid the bill ($72,000-of which $63,000 had been recovered at the box office) and started to plan for the festival of 1941. Visitors to the May Festival went thoughtfully away, realizing that the nearest thing yet to the muchdiscussed, hypothetical "Salzburg of the U. S." is to be found in Cincinnati...