Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...system is not only distasteful to the "grinds." but also to the average man who does not wish to be marked on a scale so broad as to admit of his being classed with those who are in reality inferior to him. This ridiculous and inefficient scheme was, I believe, brought forth by the conference committee, which (as a well known member of '88 very justly said) "was born sickly, and died young." Let us hope that this offshoot of its weakness, this evidence of its failure, may soon be removed...
Prof. Brewer, in his last lecture, proposed to the seniors present that the class should have a composite photograph taken before graduation. It is a scheme for having every man's head photographed on the same plate and by this means obtain a photograph with the likenesses of all the class united in one face. He showed specimens pictures taken in this way; one of them was a photograph of one hundred young ladies which formed a very clear and shapely dedned individual head. By these means there can be obtained an average picture of the whole class which would...
...following scheme has been arranged to bring out the candidates in pole-vaulting and putting the shot...
...small army of students, and have a "rough and tumble," as they call it, with the strikers. At a conference this forenoon they decided to ask the city officials for a license and then to offer their services to the company. The faculty have been notified and the scheme will probably be killed. - N. Y. Evening Post...
...Greek play are to be sold to the actors at fifty per cent. of their original cost. This plan is peculiar from the fact that the more any one individual did for the success of the play, the more he has to expend to obtain a momento. Indeed, this scheme is so consistently carried out, that Dikaiopolis and Lamachos cannot obtain their costumes at any price - they being retained for "preservation." Pennsylvanian...