Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Scheme for those who wish to anticipate next autumn will not be ready until about Commencement...
...first apprised of the usefulness of this scheme of ethics by the explanation of the moral principle on which one of my friends wrote themes for the less-favored members of his class. His argument is in this wise...
...made regarding it, are entirely without foundation, for now the last trace of favoritism has disappeared. We are obliged to put up with the inconvenience of the process because of the disgraceful traffic in rooms carried on last year and the year before. It is unfortunate that the new scheme could not have been arranged so that the pipers would have been paid out of the pockets of the dancers. This was almost impossible, and we who have not traded in rooms must suffer, with those who have, the consequences which follow that traffic...
...scheme" to which I have referred is not to be regarded as a still valid constitution, nowhere that I know can a clear definition of the powers and duties of the officers be found, and not even in that scheme is there any provision for the direct or indirect responsibility of these officers to the Association. The annual election of officers, from a mistaken but widespread idea that any government of students will be overruled by the influence of the President or the Corporation, is not viewed as an event of any importance, and we have therefore great reason...
...society is led on, step by step, by mere momentary whims of the majority, or by the influence of its affairs, until the original constitution is entirely forgotten. At Memorial Hall, however, the case is even worse than this, since there no constitution is to be found; for the "Scheme for carrying on the Dining Hall" was, as "A Director" has claimed, valid only for a year, and we are now left with merely a general understanding that the Hall is to be managed to the best of their ability by ten or twelve officers, who are subject in some...