Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...open meeting in Phillips Brooks House tonight. During the past few years clubs of this nature have sprung up in universities though the country, and their importance has greatly increased. although ultra-pacifist, views are not popular just at the present time, the careful method of working out a scheme of world peace pursued by the Polity clubs is deserving of careful investigation...
...provided with all high priced coaching, scouting, dieting and other paraphernalia that its rivals are getting. To the progressive development of that absurdity, as the Yale report wisely points out, there is no end in sight. The time has surely come, therefore, for our colleges to agree upon a scheme of retrenchment. The chief evil of intercollegiate athletics at the present time is not their distractive effect upon study not their roughness, nor their promotion of bad feeling between rival institutions. In all these things there has been great improvement. The worst feature today is the excessively high cost...
...articles on the summer military expedition of "our boys," which with J. A. Goldthwait '17's. "With Battery A on the Border," forms a readable report of activities at the front. "Twilight Practice," by W. J. Littlefield '16, who persuaded the football management to adopt the Stadium lighting scheme, is another article of current interest...
This superior training of many men in the technique of the service and the consequent keen competition for officers' positions would have drawn many more to a voluntary organization, like last year's Regiment than have appeared interested in the present scheme...
Professor Pickering, of the Harvard Observatory, an expert and renowned man of science, denounces the "daylight saving" trick with the clock as a foolish and useless fiction. His opinion will have great weight and will carry conviction to the many who have hitherto regarded the scheme as a more or less successful plan to fool Mother Nature and her children at the same time...