Word: plans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Many advantages are urged for the new plan. All holidays and anniversaries would always fall on the same day of the week while a promissory note given for any number of weeks, months or years will always come due on the day of the week it was given. The plan also provides that Good Friday and Easter Sunday be observed on certain fixed dates...
...examinations were this year applied to the Freshmen entering Columbia, and the men who were accepted on this plan have in almost every case proved their ability to handle the work. All men who took the tests were divided into three groups, and of the first group only two have failed to rank near the top of their class. It is admittedly impossible to judge finally as to the value of the tests with only one year's trial but Dr. Jones is confident of their ultimate value...
...long time since Greek was dropped as an entrance requirement, and since Latin was compulsory for Freshmen here. Harvard was the first college to adopt, the "Comprehensive Plan" for entrance, and has been a leader in the system of concentration, distribution and general examinations. The recent progressive steps taken by other universities have only in rare instances gone beyond what Harvard has already done. Perhaps the reason that Harvard has remained comparatively unchanged this year is that she was prepared to meet modern conditions before they...
...vacation the department hopes to move all the Freshmen to the new building except those who are engaged in special exercises like wrestling, fencing and boxing, because, although the main basketball hall is opened today, the entire building will not be completed until the beginning of January. The present plan provides that men living in the Freshmen dormitories will dress in their own rooms, lockers being provided only for men who live out of town or elsewhere in Cambridge...
...cannot allow to pass unchallenged Dr. Fosdick's attack in the Harvard Chapel upon the program of universal military training. At the same time that he denounced the nation's unwillingness to defend the Armenians against the threat of Turkish aggression, he also denounced the plan of those who would put the nation in a condition of readiness to meet such threats. For my part I see no virtue in expecting America to take the field against the forces of violence and disorder unless one is willing that America should be equipped to take the field. Pacifism combined with staying...