Word: plans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been subscribed up to date. The house at present occupied by the school at Athens is not adequate for its purposes, although an exhorbitant rent is paid. Besides this expense of over $1,000, the several colleges are obliged to support the directors of the institution. The plan now is to raise a fund sufficiently large to support a permanent directorship at the school...
...Merriam presented the report of the special committee appointed to correspond with other colleges on marking systems. The report embraced twenty two colleges. A general discussion ensued of the various systems, the tendency being to favor a system of ranking by general classes. The great objection to such a plan was shown to be in the award of scholarships. A resolution expressive of dissatisfaction with the present was tabled, although manifestly in accord with the prevailing opinion. No conclusion was reached, and the meeting adjourned until...
What is needed is that an administration be provided for the university which shall be efficient and progressive, and it is to be hoped that the present discussion will evolve some plan which will achieve the most desirable result...
...that it is a tres grande thing to be a bold, bad man. Now a grind is never a bold, bad man. He is just the opposite. He can give you the length in parasangs of Xenephon's march to the sea; he can sketch for you a technical plan of Olympus; he can tell you the exact size of the sail-cloth in which Helen, the divine of women, was wrapped when the lily-like voiced ancients threw one to the other the winged word, as she passed them by; he can tell you who was the grandmother...
...plan like our conference committee for representation of the students in college government, is undergoing consideration at Princeton...