Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...article referred to says: "Even the Iayman visiting Harvard is struck by the almost haphazard architecture and entire lack of any general scheme." Unfortunately this is too true. It is difficult to understand why a consistent plan was not followed in the erection of our buildings, and why distorted ideas of architectural beauty should have been perpetuated in some of our least attractive structures. An intense absorption in the engrossing problems of education on the part of the governing authorities must be responsible for the uneven development of the University grounds. Why the power plant was allowed to drop down...
...much greater if an athletic representative or committee were elected by the residents of each dormitory to combine with representatives of other buildings in organizing teams and arranging schedules in the various sports which are suited to inter-dormitory competition. Some such arrangement would do away with the present haphazard methods, and would increase materially the number of participants...
...Saturday, in order to increase the Alpheus Hyatt Memorial Fund for field lessons for Boston children. The women of the standing committee of the fund, together with many school teachers in the overcrowded districts, are working earnestly to make the fair a success, so that what has heretofore been haphazard field instruction may be systematized, and become a necessary part of the curriculum. Professor Hyatt, who established the fund, was for a long time Professor of Natural History at Harvard...
...have enumerated in a previous letter. It also became necessary to adopt some settled policy in regard to the minor sports, as their number was increasing (three new ones have come into existence this year) and experience has shown that the money assistance granted to them in a somewhat haphazard fashion was growing rapidly in amount...
...uninterested ones, and to foster scholarship by increasing ardor and enthusiasm in the college and by relieving the various courses of the presence of perfunctory students. The history of the system, however, bears out Professor Munsterberg in his statement in "American Traits," that two-thirds of the elections are haphazard, controlled by accidental motives. In 1903 the Committee on Improvement of Instruction reported that the average amount of study was discreditably small, and that there was a constant increase of men willing to avoid work by the use of printed notes and "seminars." It is thus evident that in many...