Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...matters of immediate interest to Harvard men, of which the number is almost wholly made up, are certainly just now very much worth while. They express and stimulate ideas, and this statement is high praise. Dean Castle's answer to Mr. Lippmann's objections to the Freshman dormitory scheme is exactly what we have long been hoping for: a public defence, from a man intimately acquainted with the facts and conditions, of one of the most important and far-reaching changes made by the new administration. Dean Castle has summarized Mr. Lippmann's objections before replying to them, thereby enabling...
Lord Cecil has been to China several times, and he is in America at present to arouse interest in a scheme for founding a college there, originally inaugurated by the alumni and a few undergraduates of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The proposed college is to be on the plan of the English universities, and to offer instruction in all similar subjects...
...concludes its report by suggesting to instructors, "in addition to the ordinary tests for passing a course, the experimental use of special tests designed to measure intellectual power or grasp of a subject." A few instructors have tried this plan with apparent success. The CRIMSON wishes to endorse the scheme heartily, and hopes that all those instructors to whose courses it is applicable will adopt it in making out their next examinations...
...seems certain that in a few years, with growing faculties, more scholarships, and improved facilities, the Harvard engineering department will reach a higher place and hold a more assured reputation than at present. Indeed it has already entered on a well-planned scheme of expansion. As its progress continues, the annual meetings of its two allied societies will have greater significance and interest each year...
Once more the Corporation has come to the rescue of the new Senior dormitory scheme by promising improvements in the sanitary conditions of Thayer, and by giving preference in the allotment of other rooms to those who move out of Thayer to give place to the incoming Seniors. This last assurance ought surely to persuade all men in Thayer who are not Juniors to give the Junior allotment a clean field, for by staying in their present rooms they will only interfere with the Juniors, when they can get just as good rooms somewhere else and interfere with nobody...