Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be observed that the basis of division is the proportion of profit on each member's business to the profit on the business of all members. The total profit would naturally be larger than that on the business of members, since the Society would expect under the new scheme, to make sales to non-members, and to make a profit on its business with them as well as on its business with members. Other methods of dividing profits are possible; e. g. equal division among members, but the directors recommend the method mentioned as being on the whole...
Examinations for Honors in Classics (Second-Year and Final) will be held in Sever 37 in accordance with the scheme given below...
...have been the man to suggest a way to help the French government out of financial shipwreck, in the early part of the eighteenth century. Law spent the early part of his life in roaming about Europe gambling and duelling and all the time turning over in his brain scheme after scheme for revolutionizing the financial world by introducing a credit system different from any then known. Finally he persuaded France that what she needed was the confidence of the people, and to bring this into life he proposed his bank which had for its fundamental principles the three following...
...attempt was made by the undergraduates of Vassar to introduce the wearing of the cap and gown. The faculty, however, nipped the scheme...
There is some talk of getting up a base-ball nine among the members of the Medical School. They certainly have a good battery to start with, in Nichols and Bremner of Yale. It would be a good thing for the 'Varsity nine if such a scheme were carried out. Practice games could be played with the nine after the fashion of the Yale consolidated nine...