Word: plans
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...present writing Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, and Brown have signified their willingness to meet us, while no answers have been received from the others. As to how, when, and where to play these Colleges, should they be challenged, nothing, of course can be decided as yet; but there are two plans talked of, the latter of which is considered by far preferable, if practicable. The first plan is to meet each club separately at some city equidistant from the two colleges. This would necessitate an outlay of money rather larger than desirable, and would also consume time which would be hard...
...first number of the Magenta the announcement was made that the paper would be sent to the rooms of those subscribers who desired it. Finding that such persons are very few in number, and various other causes arising for the impracticability of the plan, we now inform our readers that the Magenta can hereafter only be obtained, in Cambridge, at Richardson...
...with tolerable success; but it is significant that, after pupils have got almost to manhood, the slacker the government has been, the more marked the success. It is also to be noticed - and Dr. McCosh is unfair in not noticing - that the two serious objections offered to the plan of voluntary recitations apply also with great force to the present system. It is indeed true that great numbers of men enter college without any appreciation of study; but it is also true that great numbers leave college in the same condition. So, too, even now, cramming is very prevalent. Both...
...chief advantage the new system will have over the old is that it will compel the students to plan for themselves. This will have the same good effect in college that it has in the outside world, where men who find their judgment a safe guide in some things are likely to trust to it in others rather than to public opinion. College, at present, by no means causes such independence of thought as one would naturally expect...
...year 1871-72 was the first year of the new plan of instruction in the Medical School and of the new requisitions for the medical degree." The expenses of the School for that year were $600 more than for the year previous, while the receipts from students were $3,600 less...