Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale University, and at the hands of other colleges with whom we have dealings. This idea has been put forward so much in the late discussion of the base-ball question that it has become quite common for certain men to express the unqualified opinion that the whole scheme is one intended solely for the benefit of some person or persons remote from New Haven. For the sake of a large majority, however, who believe in fair motives on the part of our rivals, it is simple justice to say that such opinions as the foregoing have been confined...
ABOUT THE CAGE.EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: Although I see your columns flooded with communications of complaint and advice, yet I think that the reader will agree, upon careful thought, that the scheme I venture to propose, is one worthy of mention. I refer to the base-ball cage in the gymnasium. As matters now stand, the men training for the batteries cannot practice while the candidates for the other positions are working. Thus as the cage is now in great demand by the 'Varsity and Freshman teams, the hours of the fielders must be shortened, in order that the others...
...following scheme has been arranged to bring out the candidates in the pole vault and putting the shot...
...inches of water would be needed to cover the whole available surface. This water would be furnished by the city at a low price - two cents per hundred gallons - so that the cost of flooding would be small. The apparently serious objection has been made that if such a scheme as that proposed should be adopted, the open air practice of the Mott Haven team, always begun of necessity much later here than at other colleges, would be thereby delayed for a much longer time. But the ground is of a very porous nature, and may be readilydrained; then...
...push the matter through, and we would urge them to take active steps before next autumn to make the idea a reality. The college will duly appreciate any trouble to which they may put themselves, and every skater at Harvard will rejoice greatly at the execution of this scheme...