Word: remodeling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...tradition is broken in perhaps its most prominent features,- in flowers high up, and a "free-for-all." A substitute was tried last year, and was admittedly not satisfactory. Any further attempt to remodel these exercises means simply getting farther and farther away from the "traditional" argument The ladies who came to see the Tree exercises would not in any case see the genuine article, but merely a revised and abridged edition with the characteristic feature left out. I understand the value of traditions to be in their entity; remnants are very apt to be farcical...
...society by Congressman Breckenridge on the "Responsibilities of Power," that the organization was gradually tending to become what it is most desirable for the University to possess, a general reform club. To change the Free Wool Club into such an institution, or rather formally to rename it and remodel its constitution to suit the actual modifications in its character is the gist of the proposition which the executive committee will make before the meeting tonight...
Under the leadership of Professor Dwight the supreme aim of the Law School, hitherto, has been to fit students for the actual work of law practice. The newer policy, however, condemns this ambition as inadequate, and seeks to expand and remodel the plan of instruction. The idea is to carry out the old object of fitting students to be practicing lawyers, and in addition the advocates of this new plan would have taught at the Law School the theory of law in its highest ranges, as is done in the finest universities of Europe. This expansion and extension of instruction...
...pressing, as the present structure is much over-crow led. It is reported that a New York alumnus, whose generosity has already been shown to the college. is contemplating a gift which will give the Princeton athletic men plenty of indoor accommodations. Meanwhile a scheme is on foot to remodel the present interior...
...from all appearances the period for the third briefs promises to be as short. This short interval implies both hasty correction by the instructors, who are unable to give each brief the attention it deserves, and hasty work on the part of the students, who, in order not to remodel their work when once written, wait until the briefs are handed back before beginning their forensics...