Word: planning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discount could perhaps be given for buying such coupons issued in booklet form, and the plan would also be advantageous to the H. A. A. in handling funds. To the conscientious student who, at the beginning of the season promises himself to play squash at least three times a week, such a system would be of great convenience, as well as an added bulwark against the temptation to break the pledge, that comes with December hours, theses, and too much Vagabonding...
...plan advanced in the school paper to introduce a combination of the concentration and tutorial systems into the Choate School curriculum, while commendable because of the interest shown in individual scholarship, is a rather far step from the purpose of the secondary school. According to the outline proposed, the Choate News advocates a modification to some degree of the Harvard tutorial system, placing at the disposal of the high-ranking student the advantage of preparing special work aside from classroom courses under supervision of the masters. The project is similar to the Harvard system in that it allows sufficient opportunity...
Aside from the minor points of added strain on the teaching staff or an unwelcome distinction between the excellent and mediocre student, the plan is mostly unfeasible because it would be in direct contrast to the main purpose of the secondary school. There has been much regret evidenced recently by educators at the disappearance of the liberal college under the increasing pressure for specialization. In laying a firm foundation for later years of university training is found the most imminent and pressing problem with which the preparatory school is faced. The most practical objection to the Choate plan...
...esteemed contemporary recently viewed the House Plan at Harvard as meaning nothing more than "added paternalism and increased floor space." There are, no doubt, many who would be pleased to construe the experiment as simply as that, yet the fact remains there are several questions which are uppermost and will not be settled until the scheme has a reality...
...idealists who place the House Plan before unwilling eyes must realize that its success or failure rests on the simple and prosaic custom of eating. Their decisions will be awaited with interest, because it means either regimentation or freedom, and paternalism or "laissez faire". The ultimate disposition of fraternities and clubs, moreover, cannot be solved until more illuminating information is forthcoming as to what the dining halls will actually mean. Until this much-anticipated illumination assumes definite shape, discussion appears to be nothing more than abstract the-orizing, which will conveniently occupy any free afternoon...