Word: planning
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Last spring a committee was appointed from the Board of Overseers to examine the Chemical Laboratories. The report returned was that the accommodations for chemical classes were inadequate, unsanitary, uncomfortable, and generally bad. The committee also rejected a plan for the renovation of the Boylston and Dane Hall laboratories, and recommended new buildings...
...believe, generally known that the plan which is in preparation will be carried out by arranging all College courses in a few sections. Each student at the end of his Freshman year will be required to elect one of these fields of study for thorough work to be pursued in his remaining three years, and will also be expected to get some knowledge of other subjects by taking a small number of elementary courses in each of the other divisions...
...Such a plan will not make a radical change in the habits of the ordinary student, whose selection of courses is more sensible than most persons are willing to believe. The students who will be affected are the ones who are pursuing specialties to the point of narrowness, and the loafers whose exploiting of the elective system leads to mastery of no subject. The specialist will be required to broaden out; the student in pursuit of "snap" courses will be required to concentrate. Both processes will tend to the same end--the turning out of well-rounded men, equally ready...
...That at the end of his first year in College each student be required to present to his adviser a plan of study for the remainder of his College course; and that the plan must conform to the general principles laid down by the committee, unless the committee is satisfied that the student is earnest and has sufficient grounds for departing from those principles...
...That a student's plan be subsequently changed only for a cause satisfactory to the committee...