Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Determined on a mighty scheme...
...said to be a favorite idea with some of our educators that, in place of making recitations universally voluntary, the privilege should be limited to those who show a special interest in study; these being determined by their rank either in all studies or in some department. This scheme, while free from such objections as Dr. McCosh's, would also offer a powerful inducement to men in the early part of their course to work hard. To us, however, it appears to have several faults...
...cannot imagine. It is worthy of a Gilmore; but between college journals there is so much more discord than harmony, that he would never have dared to make the attempt. However, the reasons given are too conclusive and overwhelming for us to raise our feeble voice against the scheme, even were we so inclined. What can be more pleasant than to shake hands with the Williams Vidette and Amherst Student, to make the acquaintance of the fair editresses from Vassar and all the mixed colleges, to see the Hobart Sentinel and Cornell Era hobnobbing together, or the Miami Student...
...given an extract from an article by T. W. Higginson in the Scribner for January, proposing the plan of a Graduate Scholarship, to be open to applicants from every college in America. The Nation of February 20, in its customary tone of ignorant ridicule, throws cold water on the scheme, and severely criticises the author of the article in Scribner. The writer in the Nation grants that "liberally endowed and carefully administered scholarships are among the most efficient attainable means of higher education in our land," but thinks there would be great practical difficulty in finding an organization to properly...
GENTLEMEN, - In an interesting notice of the Gray Engravings, in the last number of your paper, the writer referred to my proposed scheme of photographing the collection. His statements were, I believe, correct, excepting in one point which nearly concerns the publishers; and for their sake I make this correction. The photographs, it was said, were to be on sale at a book-store in Cambridge; they may be, but not through College authority. Messrs. Osgood & Co. issue the photographs in their own style and at their own price, and sell them through any dealer they please; but in return...