Word: plan
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...plan for an Athletic Association of Harvard Alumni advisable...
...certainly seems worth while to consider such a plan. There is published this morning a call for candidates to form a 1900 class hockey team. If such a team can be successfully started, other class teams will doubtless be formed and a good training school for the 'Varsity established. The men are green at the Canadian game, even at the preparatory schools the old ice polo is still in vogue, but it seems certain that the new game will be permanently adopted among the colleges. By the increased interest sure to be aroused through the formation of class teams, there...
...above is, then, a short statement of the plan to be discussed tonight. It is hardly necessary to point out that numbers will count. Every additional man who is present will help to make the action of the meeting, whether favorable or not, at least decisive. To attend tonight will be genuine service to the University...
...friends of the University Club plan could make no greater mistake than to give even the slightest semblance of wishing to rush the scheme through. Nothing can be more important, even if the project is finally carried out, than that intelligent criticism be welcomed and given its full weight. The object of the meeting in the Fogg Museum tomorrow night, is not to carry any scheme through on a wave of popular enthusiasm. Mass meetings are often used for such purposes and it is doubtful whether in some cases they do not accomplish more harm than good...
...distinguished from any particular plan which may be proposed, the cause which has called forth the University Club scheme, is one into which every Harvard man should enter with whole-hearted enthusiasm. This plan merits attention because it is an honest attempt to meet certain well-defined needs of our university life. Whether or not it is the best solution of the problem, the problem itself is one to which we should devote ourselves seriously...