Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Football, like other sports, is taking a modest place in the scheme of young men's activities. Yet what football there is, will undoubtedly be well worth watching. In the middle ages the CRIMSON players used to shudder at the Eli menace. Today "the informals," those loyal survivors of the sport in the University, are facing a foe more formidable than the Bulldog in his halcyon days. Whereas "All American" elevens have in the past been mythical, they may in the near future be actual organizations. Each military cantonment plans to have its team...
...idea embodied in this plan is similar to the scheme used in New York City the past summer to raise financial support for the Red Cross. When the University has been thoroughly canvassed, the winning team will be declared and its captain made assistant treasurer of the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...portion of it is available for the purchase of bonds. The proposition has the support of the class officers still in college and many men have stated that they are heartily in favor of it. The support of the entire class, however, is essential to the success of the scheme...
...feathered crows as may not bear the eagle's altitude, they could fly to more suitable places than Cuba or Canada. In neither of these two countries is great love fostered for poltroons. And Mexico, with all her sins, places no immoral value on the prime necessity in our scheme of existence of the preservation of human life...
...before the sun. For the sake of truth, which is always a prosaic busybody, we must admit that occasionally the embattled citizens failed to defend their castles with the utmost skill, and the foreign soldiery refused to melt at the psychological moment. However, excepting such minor failures, a like scheme of war was a locally tremendously successful campaign...