Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other words the Board of Overseers wish to put such restrictions upon us as practically to do away with all contests with outsiders. They think they have found the best way to accomplish this; but if they think that such a scheme will promote the cause of general athletics and materially lessen the evils which they imagine arise from intercollegiate contests, we venture to say they will find they are mistaken. It they wish to reduce Harvard University to the level of a boarding school and treat the students as mere striplings, well and good; but we are inclined...
...plan has been given up without more apparent cause than listlessness on the part of the organizers. There are plenty of good players in the University, as can be seen by observing the class teams, and I think that it is a great mistake to let such a good scheme fall through...
...bill was bad. (a) It was forced forward in an unjustifiable manner. (b) It was advanced from selfish, political and harmful motives. (c) It was an offer of plunder to the States; lobbyists were to get a large share. (d) It was part of a scheme to spend the surplus and prevent reduction of taxation. (e) It was a precursor of similar and worse bills. (f) The money was to go to States and not to people whence it came. (g) It would induce extravagance and waste like that of 1837. (h) It was a log-rolling measure and likely...
...bill is urged by politicians in order to catch the Grand Army vote.- 2. It is a scheme to lessen the surplus and thus maintain the tariff.- 3. It will increase the present great army of thieves and plunderers of the treasury: Public Opinion, II, 370-3; Nation, 40, p, 172; Nation, 43, p. 48; Vest's speech...
...colleges could continue as usual, but they should be practice games only. If Harvard struggled with Yale alone, the Lacrosse Club, Gun Club and Cricket team would be without rivals. Oxford and Cambridge, the two great English universities, could not be cited as a favorable example of the proposed scheme, as their contemporary educational institutions were decidedly insignificant, savoring somewhat of the "fresh water" colleges of the West. Mr. W. C. Boyden argued for the negative. He stated that the Harvard-Columbia race was an excellent instance of the inadvisability of including several colleges in the league. In this case...