Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...possible, the Student Council Committee on Organizations has proposed a night for everything and everything on its night; Thursdays -- musical recitals; Mondays and Wednesdays--Union entertainments, which we surmise covers other lectures as much as possible; and Tuesdays -- club meetings. The hardest part of the practical application of the scheme is that of club night, because of the number of organizations to be dealt with. By a study of the membership of the Social Clubs, the Committee have found that, adopting different Tuesday's in the month, all could hold their regular meetings on the one evening of the week...
...plan of teaching in the far East for a year under the Missionary Boards there was inaugurated some time ago as an attractive scheme for the men who are not decided as to what they wish to do and who would like the experience and the travel. The teachers hold positions in some institution of the East for a year in exactly the same capacity as that in which one would teach in this country. It gives an opportunity for exceptional service and enables one to study the missionary activity of the church at first hand. It greatly facilitates...
...Harvard Square a business centre, has such a radical suggestion been heard, Conceal that triumph of architecture, the boiler-factory, in a spinney of Japanese hemlocks! Cover those pebbly, tin-canned shores, where laps the limpid Charles, with clumps of alligator pear trees and groo-groo palms! Yet the scheme has its advantages. The exiled Freshman, in his far-off lonely habitation, may feel that he has at least sympathy, if he can watch from his window the weeping willows drooping over the water. The lone oarsman can compromise himself unnoticed and unlibelled by nature's young noblemen who frequent...
...present method of choosing the English parts representing the College at Commencement has been changed by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. According to the new scheme, six men, promising in respect of both personality and intellectual interests, are to be selected by the Committee on Commencement Parts from candidates proposed by the several departments in the College, or otherwise. After due consideration of their respective merits, based to some degree upon roughly outlined parts, two shall finally be selected by the aforesaid committee as Commencement speakers...
When the present English system of rowing was first adopted at Yale, it was felt that the success or failure of the undertaking could not be determined in a year's time, but most of the followers of the scheme had agreed that the race with Princeton on October 25 would go far towards showing whether or not the system warranted a continuation. The Yale crew came across the finish line a length behind Princeton after a two-mile race, which was characterized for Yale as splashing, unfinished and unrhythmical, the eight men being utterly exhausted. This seems to have...