Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plan proposed by the Base-Ball Association for the regulation of expenses and the closer consolidation of athletic interests at Harvard, is worthy of praise. Doubtless, flaws will be found later in some one of the many provisions of this scheme, but in the main it is good. We would suggest that a clause be inserted providing that "no officer of any athletic association shall be a member of this committee." It would also be very desirable to have at least one member of the committee, a graduate, or some one of the instructors interested in college athletics. This...
...beginning of the season have not shown up well enough to get a place on the picked team, may by careful work develop into better players than some members of the regular nine. As an athletic venture for the improvement of the base-ball players, the new scheme will undoubtedly prove a success, but as a financial investment the outlook is not so encouraging. It is rather difficult to see how people will pay to see a second nine from Yale College play with some outside club when it is perfectly easy to witness a game between the regular nine...
...Every student who has been compelled by the present grouping of the courses to depart seriously from the scheme of college work he wished to follow, is requested to present a statement of the facts for the information of the Committee on the Tabular View. Communications may be left at the secretary's office, or may be forwarded...
Aside from the immediate object of this course, the opportunity here afforded to persons who are otherwise occupied during the rest of the year for obtaining a better knowledge of their physical condition, and for laying the foundation of a better physical life is an encouraging feature of the scheme...
...touches our honor as Englishmen very nearly that this scheme should be carried out without delay. France and Germany have long been in the field. France has her School and Germany her Institute; and even America has forestalled us in this race. That new country, notwithstanding the vast and absorbing interests of the present, notwithstanding the boundless hopes of the future, has been eager to claim her part in the heritage. While all the civilized nations of the world, one after another, have established their literary councils in Athens, shall England alone be unrepresented at the centre of Hellenic culture...