Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...BURBANK.HARVARD POLO CLUB. A scheme is under consideration for bringing to Watertown a drove of ponies from the ranch of Mr. Benj. Brewster of Cheyenne. They will all be warranted sound and thoroughly broken to the saddle. They will cost about $120.00 per head. Gentlemen (whether members of the club or not) in want of a pony, are requested to sign the paper in the rooms, or to send their name to Mr. Marshall P. Williams (Country Club, Brookline), who will answer any inquiries regarding the consignment...
...students, either by those who are members of the Conference Committee or by a jury specially chosen, is well calculated to correct the impression abroad regarding cribbing, but such a system to be successful must be backed eventually by college opinion. If the students will support such a scheme, it can be made a power in expressing a manly sentiment on all cheating. In order to give the Conference Committee the needed data, as to the probable reception of this plan, all the college papers and every student should aid in agitating the subject, so that all modes of expression...
...first theme in English 5 under the new scheme...
...instructor in question of accomplishing this end to a limited extent, it is only just to the students that they should receive an explanation of why it has been given up, and if the idea has really proved impracticable, it is to be hoped that some other scheme may be devised to attain the same...
...Conference Committee has appointed a sub-committee to draft a scheme of an elementary course in common law to be added to the college studies. This idea can hardly be too highly praised, and, if carried into practice, it will meet a want long felt by every college man who has not pursued the study of law. It is to meet such a defect in college training, as the lack of a knowledge of law, that books like "Every Man His Own Lawyer," and "Woman Before the Law" have been written, - books that must fail to accomplish their...