Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...throes of despair last winter in its attempts to maintain a respectably large membership and at the same time keep down the price of the general board, the Corporation decided to lend its aid. A fixed guaranty of four dollars was finally decided upon and the new scheme of allowances for absences and the establishing of table for transients seemed at the time to warrant the guaranty. After the guaranty was removed, however, the boarders were left to the tender mercies of the Association and the Corporation withdrew...
...Committee has also for some time been aware of the unsatisfactory state of the room, and has on hand a definite scheme for bettering matters and for future development. This plan contemplates...
...times to attempt to widen a man's acquaintance artificially. At best, it only results in a bowing acquaintance with a score or so of men who you had no idea before were members of your class. This in itself is good, but it is not what the scheme purports to bring about. A class has become definitely sifted into groups by Senior year. A man's friends are made and he will inevitably move more or less completely in his own particular circle, and the fact that he meets another man in the Yard wearing a class button whom...
...fairness of this scheme is shown by the fact that, as each college must defend both sides of the question, there will be no reason for comment on the ground that one had to support the more difficult side of the proposition. It is, in addition, more expedient as it obviates the necessity of preparing for two separate debates in the same half-year. Furthermore, the invidious second team will be eliminated, thus enabling the six best debaters in each university to participate in the argument, whereas before only three men took part, the second team gaining little or nothing...
...working out in detail of the scheme adopted at the conference, subject to the approval of the three associations, provides for the selection of the judges from a list of 30 submitted by the home teams to their opponents, seven weeks before the debate. Within one week from the receipt of each list, the names will be returned, those deemed satisfactory marked in order of preference, and the final choice of three made as soon afterwards as possible. In regard to the subject, a list of three questions will be submitted to each of the three governing boards...