Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...scheme that's fair...
...teach Sanskrit during a long time for - nothing. The same gentleman has still the charge of the Sanskrit instruction. He has been a member of the Faculty for a number of years long enough to entitle him to a Professor's chair according to President Eliot's own scheme of promotion. And yet when the time came to have a Professor of Sanskrit that instructor was passed over and a young man called to take the place. Here was the opportunity of verifying the principles of promotion laid down in the President's report, an opportunity the like of which...
...question of extending the privilege of voluntary recitations to Sophomores during the coming year has been discussed by the Faculty as part of a scheme for the further revision of the recitation system. What the entire scheme is, is not yet known, and it is possible that no changes will be made as regards the privileges of the two upper classes; but it has been decided definitely, as we understand, to give Sophomores voluntary recitations. We believe that this is a step in the right direction, and that it is a proper successor to the many advances which Harvard...
...another column will be found a full account of the proposed athletic meetings in which the classes are to compete. The scheme appears to us the best that has yet been devised for increasing the number of contestants, and for improving the records. By it, not only the champions of the College, but the champions of each class will be given due prominence; and to win his class-championship should be incentive enough for any one to do his best, even if he cannot bear away the highest prize. A system similar to this has largely contributed to the success...
...Dean's Report we are told that the semi-annual period of examinations was shortened in order to check a "serious diminution of the time for instruction." That the expansion of the elective system had made this step necessary, no one will deny; and the scheme of groups, far from being open to criticism, is to be approved, because it allows an indefinite increase of the number of the electives and extension of the time for examinations, if the Faculty have a mind to grant it. Shortening the period for the mid-years was, therefore, a matter of expediency...