Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...decided that the class adopt last year's scheme of charging each man seventy-five cents for dues. A Red Book will be published this year as in the past, and the committee to manage it will be appointed later...
...these organizations could raise a fund large enough to be a permanent endowment, they would be doing a great service. We question whether the execution of such a scheme is now within their power. If, however, these organizations would appropriate a given sum from their treasuries to reduce the price of tickets when a group of at least ten or twelve of their members should go in a body, they should be able to do much to foster an interest in opera. If such a plan were successful it would become a regular part of the activities of these clubs...
...scheme will be inaugurated tomorrow in regard to the Student Council date-book, which is a card-catalogue of coming events of general interest to members of the University, kept in the office of the Union for ready reference...
...Sexton, the coach, has approved of the method of giving the cup. It is now planned to give a trophy each year on the same scheme. Mr. Hann, the donor of this year's cup, played first base on the baseball team last spring and was captain of his Freshman team...
...election of officers." Hurried visits to all members possessing the franchise with strict injunction to attend the meeting and vote for the "right candidate," resulted more often than not in an election well calculated, sooner or later, to foster the elements of discord. To operate successfully a regular "railroading" scheme under the old system required only three or four intelligent "spell-binders," backed by as few as 50 voters well trained in concerted cheering. Time and again the many, who could know very little of the respective candidates' merits, were won over merely by the volume of sound raised...