Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next theme in English 5 is due on Wednesday. This will be the first theme in the new scheme of work...
...student to rejuvenate his mental faculties and tone up his physical constitution, and seems to think the one is not accomplished by association with the help usually employed around hotels or the other by sleeping in laundries or under bowling alleys. As to the financial success of the scheme he is equally skeptical, his experience seeming to have been that the cooks got the greater part of his perquisites or wages, emphasizing their demands, when he was disposed to be less generous than they wished, by furnishing such poor food at the table presided over by him that the guests...
...favorable deliberation. For instance, by forming a club of this kind with a large membership, a small assessment fee would be amply sufficient to provide many desirable features of club life, such as a good reading-room, a comfortable smoking room, and telephone and mailing facilities. We think the scheme is worthy of discussion, and we envite communications on the subject from the undergraduates...
...University of Penn. A. A. have a scheme on foot to establish a State Inter-collegiate Spring Athletic Meeting. Johns Hopkins and the Naval Academy at Annapolis may be invited to join...
...Philosophy IV Professor Palmer has taken up a new and seemingly good scheme for the final examination. He has proposed a thesis subject which will cover all the year's work. The members of the section are to write out the thesis in the examination room, after getting matter for it during the rest of the course. Such a plan is necessarily better for a philosophical examination than for many other kinds; but still we would like to see it more commonly adopted. For in the ordinary examination, without showing that you have any connected idea of your work...