Word: plan
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...business. This club is in part a social and in part a literary organization, providing its members with a pleasantly furnished parlor and reading rooms, where about thirty of the leading periodicals are kept on file; and holding monthly sociables where other attractions than literary are introduced. The plan of drawing all the men together into a common body, and of maintaining a general parlor or club room is one that should succeed in all the dormitories...
...project which has been discussed for several years with increasing interest, until now it appears to be the most important matter before the faculty and board of overseers, is shortening the academic course to three years. The main arguments for this plan appear to be that a full course through the college and a professional school requires too much time, that the present graduate department is hampered in organization and work, and that the positions of Harvard university and Harvard professors abroad are anomalous...
...effort is being made to organize in Washington a university club on the plan of the University club of New York. There are over five hundred college men in the capitol city, of which number nearly two hundred are members of congress...
...there will be a 75 yard dash instead of a 100 yard one; there will also be 150 yard, 300 yards, 600 yards and 1000 yards runs to take the place of the usual dashes. There will be several long runs of two miles and more, and the same plan will be followed out in the walks. In the place also of the running jumps standing jumps will be substituted...
...present indications point to the contrary. Unless a sudden and decided change takes place in the intentions of the athletic men, the offer of handicaps would induce a great number of men to enter the meetings who have so present intentions of doing so. At any rate the plan would be well worth the consideration of the H. A. A. officers...