Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent number of the Evening Post has letters from Cornell, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Yale and Harvard. The establishment of a new professorship in the "science and art of teaching" at Cornell, the adoption of the "group system" at Johns Hopkins, the scheme of making a university at Princeton, the election of a new president and the building of a gymnasium at Yale, and the increased interest in foot-ball, the Conference Committee and the literary improvements at Harvard are the principal subjects discussed in these letters...
...first theme is to consist of an introduction to the topic in hand, stating why it is chosen, and dividing it into the six parts required by this scheme, arranging these parts in the order in which they shall be treated...
...choice of topics for treatment under this scheme the widest liberty is to be granted each student. As a matter of economy it is earnestly recommended that each man choose some topic connected with the elective in which he is at present most interested...
...doubts as to the truth of a certain assertion. A dispute then ensues between the two, in which by some mysterious dispensation of Providence, the candidate always comes out ahead. To one uninitiated into the great secret, the sudden interruption is startling, but when we learn that this whole scheme was hatched at that convivial gathering of last night, that the friend was carefully instructed what objections to make, and by what arguments to back his assertions, we cannot help laughing. The "victorious" candidate has finished reading his thesis and the professors talk more Latin at him, examine...
...Furber then introduced the marking system as the topic for discussion, and presented a scheme designed to provoke discussion of the various points. Various opinions were expressed, and an interesting overhauling of minor points maintained. The following resolutions introduced by Mr. Merriam were passed...