Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...charge has often been made that college athletics are used merely as a money-making scheme for the colleges. The commercial spirit of the sport is said to be shown by the erection of immense stadiums all over the country simply to increase the revenue from the football games. As a matter of fact, the various University Athletic Associations in general have considerable difficulty in avoiding a large annual deficit...
...pentametric. With its conclusion that woman is hard to understand there will be no general disagreement. Mr. Heffenger's thoughtful sonnet "Success" is simply but unpoetically expressed. One is less certain of Mr. Rogers' ideas in the long poem "Death"--a large subject--pent in a rather exacting rhyme scheme. If the author had been less vague and more self-disciplined, it might have been easier to share his vision. Mr. Leffingwell's two poems, especially "Mt. Auburn at Dawn," show a lyric talent reminiscent of Noyes. But the best poem, and the best piece in this issue...
...penalty for failure to pass the examination, certain men were appointed to take the matter up with the University authorities, in co-operation with the Committee on Scholarship. The plans discussed by these men with the authorities were finally adopted by the Faculty. The chief provisions of the new scheme are as follows: Men who have not passed the oral by the middle of their Sophomore year shall be obliged to study either French or German during the remainder of that year under the supervision of a tutor provided by the College. This work shall not count towards the degree...
...poetic offerings are timely. Mr. Skinner boldly adopts "vers libra"; Mr. Nelson chooses a compromise--stanzas of two, three, or four lines, and a rhyme-scheme which wanders into couplets and out again. Three other poets show the influence of the season in a "Ballad of Love," a "Love Dream," and a "Call of the Spring." Two of these are examples of amatory pantheism, somewhat obscurely though not ineffectively expressed. Mr. Nelson's effort is simpler, clearer, more cheerful, and on the whole more pleasing...
After an hour of open discussion as to whether they wanted intercollegiate football restored under limitations imposed by the university committee on student organizations the forum of Columbia University recently voted to accept the scheme which bars Harvard, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale for a period of five years and limits closely those eligible to play Columbia. The motion was carried almost unanimously, four prominent undergraduates voting against and approximately...