Word: schemes
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Several additions and changes in the athletic plant of the University are contemplated in connection with the above scheme. These will embrace the reclaiming of a considerable portion of the marshy ground on Soldiers Field, the conversion of the Randolph tennis court into twelve squash courts, the remodeling of Little's courts, and the construction of a temporary wooden building on the land directly back of the Freshman Dormitories to provide an additional basketball court and several small rooms for fencing, boxing, and wrestling...
...scheme of electives reminds us of the approach of the time for choosing studies for next year, and brings to mind one of the tactical feelings of the elective system. Very many of us have found that the liberty given in this direction fails of accomplishing its end, and that from the want of knowledge of the nature of some of the studies offered we are but little better off than we should be if the studies were decided for us. The fault does not lie in the Elective System itself, but in the necessity of choosing without sufficient information...
...some permanent means of co-operation in the future. A provision might be made to insure the continuation of similar conferences. A committee from the Student Council might meet annually with the Board of Overseers to represent the undergraduate opinion, when that opinion could be of value; or the scheme might be carried even further so that a representative group of undergraduates might meet on certain occasions with the Faculty...
Units Fundamental in Defense Scheme...
...organization of college coast artillery units is a fundamental part of the new scheme of the defense of the United States sea coast. The plan provides for radical changes in the coast defense policy of the government, so as to include as its basic element the utilization of railway and tractor ordnance of heavy calibre, linking the strategic points on he coast with existing railway systems. By means of the railroads and military roads capable of supporting heavy motor tractors, the whole system of defense will be changed from a static to a mobile one. For the officering of this...