Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...criticism of Harvard's action published today presents another phase of the misconception which has grown up concerning our present attitude on the football question. The questions are asked, Is not the dual league after all purely a Harvard scheme? Has not Harvard by withdrawing hurt rather than bettered her position? The answer to one question is the answer to both. The trouble with Princeton has no don't called out an expression of much needless ill-feeling. It is impossible, however, despite our recent defeat at her hands, that Princeton should put into the field a fair team capable...
...dual league was inevitably bound up with the proposition to withdraw from the old one. For years it has been talked of and considered the final solution of all difficulties; so when plans of the future were brought up at the meeting, the dual league was naturally the first scheme suggested...
...recently opened to its students two new departments. The first is in modern languages, and is to be under the direction of Dr. Camille Reid, who organized and has for some years conducted the Modern Language Institute in Boston. This department although never announced has always been in the scheme of the university. It will not take up at all the philology or literature of the languages, but will be devoted entirely to equipping men with what is needful for scientific work. Dr. Camille Reid, the head of the department, is a German by birth, and is well fitted...
...purposes, was a very bad one for a library where books were to be well cared for. Those in the upper part of the room were inaccessible on account of the number of stairs to be climbed and at the same time were injured by the great heat. The scheme of the new library is radically different. The structure is divided into seperate lofts about sixteen feet in height. Bookcases, from seven to eight feet high, cover the floors in every direction, saving only the necessary space for passages to reach them. Above the tops of the cases the walls...
...call forth many good pieces. In former years the club has been dependent on the voluntary efforts of men in and out of college who were willing to give their time to the work of composition. There has never been a lack of good songs but by the new scheme it is hoped that this year there will be a larger and better collection to choose from. Professor Paine's courses in Music afford a good training in composition, and there are undoubtedly many in college who understand the subject well enough to write songs of the required standard...