Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mind, I send my reminiscence to you. It concerns the matter of cheating at examinations, which the Conference Committee discussed at many meetings, and at considerable length. All wished to raise the tone of student honor, and if possible, to have the honor trusted, without proctors. But no practical scheme was discovered, and the subject was at last let drop...
...scheme proposed was this-that the faculty should allow any club of students who should severally guarantee the club's honor and get a member of the faculty to be their sponsor, to have examinations without a proctor. This scheme, to my great surprise, found no one but its author to defend it. Men said that it would be hard to get many groups of a dozen or more men to go bail for each other's honors in this way; that certain groups of men might form such clubs for the express purpose of cheating; that a club honestly...
Harvard Union debate to-night on the scheme for reforming the management of Memorial Hall...
...vicious, as the steward had an interest in making the board bad, as he got 50 per cent. of every order." This is "fundamentally" wrong. An officer of the Hall did not know that the directors could dismiss the steward without consulting anybody, yet all this is in the "Scheme for carrying on the Hall." Courtesy for other bodies often obliges the faculty to withhold information. When the faculty decided to make the freshman courses elective, the corporation and overseers, in their opinion, had to decide the matter. A member of the faculty handed the scheme to a reporter...
...reports of the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The report is very encouraging, and proves that the members of the managing committee and board of directors are the right men in the right place. The following extract from the report will show the scheme of work for the year...