Word: planning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Scattering tradition to the winds, the German universities have decided to devote less attention to the sabre and the gymnastic apparatus for exercise, and have initiated a movement to introduce athletic sports on the American plan. To arrange for this innovation the representatives of various universities and technical schools came together recently at Berlin and agreed upon a scheme to popularize field, track, and aquatic athletics by means of intercollegiate competitions. They are to be known as "German University Olympias," the first of which will take place in Leipsic...
...necessity, and where they exist, their character and scope will inevitably determine in large measure the attitude of the student toward his studies." Our system of regular and make-up examinations is too well known to need explanation here. The following are the four main objections to the present plan and the improvements suggested...
...Athletic Association is about to start a plan whereby towels may be procured at the Locker Building on Soldiers Field. Men can get on the "towel list" by the payment of $1. Clean towels are to be supplied twice each week and when towels are not returned a fine of twenty-five cents is to be imposed on the person failing to make the return. When the deposit fee of $1 is used up in fines by any man, his name will be scratched off the "towel list" until a re-payment of $1 is made. No charge will...
Interclass debating is a form of intellectual contest that existed some years ago, but which has now entirely disappeared. The plan of the Advisory Committee is broadly to arouse undergraduate enthusiasm for debating and to render it of more vital interest to a larger number of students than have hitherto participated in any form of argumentation. This scheme of interclass debates, with cups for the members of the winning teams, deserves the heartiest support of all those who believe that debating should maintain a time-honored place among our beneficial "outside interests and activities...
...engineer, then, has no limit to the possibilities of his profession. There are many positions to be filled, many directions to which inventive genius may be directed. The successful aspirant must possess certain rare qualities. He must have perfect industrial training, must be competent to conceive and plan, organize and direct, must have creative ability and sound reasoning faculties. He must be acquainted with business methods, with human nature. Faraday said: "It requires twenty years to make a man in the physical sciences." The young engineer must have infinite optimism and hope. Yet the result more than repays this delay...