Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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What has become of the scheme which met with so much favor from the students last year, of adding a swimming-bath to the gymnasium...
Jonas G. Clark, one of the wealthiest men in central Massachusetts, has signified his intention to found and endow a university in this city, which ambitious scheme shall not fall behind Yale or Harvard. It has been hinted about town for several weeks that Mr. Clark had in contemplation some great gift for the city, but the public did not learn what it really is until to-day, when a petition was filed in the legislature, asking for a special act of incorporation for the Clark University. This petition asks for an act of incorporation establishing at Worcester an institution...
PRINCETON, N. J., Jan. 8, 1887. At the regular weekly meeting of the faculty of Princeton College, last night, Dean Murray presented the final report of the committee for perfecting a scheme for the students' conference committee. The details of the plan are minute, are complicated, and will not be made public until Monday's issue of the Princetonian. As nearly as can be ascertained, the principal features are as follows: The committee will consist of 12 undergraduates, 6 seniors, 3 juniors, 2 sophomores and 1 freshman, who will be elected by the students themselves. Eligibility will be determined...
...last evening on the question of Home Rule for Ireland. Mr. Duane opened the case for the affirmative. After describing the unjust and despotic ascendancy of England over the Irish people at the present time, he went on to point out how this could be remedied by a suitable scheme of Home Rule. He also maintained that the Irish had advanced sufficiently in political training to render it safe to entrust them with self-government. He closed his case by expressing his firm conviction that Home Rule would soon be an accomplished fact, because of its recent rapid advance...
...History 13 is one which every member of the course will do well to sign. The scarcety of reserved books bearing upon the outline now renders it almost impossible for a man to work up the course without expending double the time which the work deserves. The proposed scheme will obviate much of this waste time...