Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year ago the CRIMSON urged an innovation in the conduct of freshman class meetings, which, when put in practice, proved to be a beneficial change. We refer to the election of temporary instead of permanent captains for the various freshman athletic teams. The advantages of this scheme are obvious. By the old system the election of freshman officers was often to say the least, hasty and illconsidered, and as a result the various teams were more or less handicapped in their subsequent work. By the choice of temporary captains, however, this particular difficulty may be obviated, for if these captains...
...amendments to the articles of agreement defining the powers of the Additing Committee on Athletics have perfected a scheme which has already proved most successful. The greater economy of the athletic organization and the more careful management resulting from the committee's supervision have already demonstrated its usefulness. The arrangement for balancing the deficiencies of one organization by the surpluses of the others is especially good, and will greatly lighten the burden of maintaining the clubs hitherto supported wholly by subscription. By the amendments, also, the control of the committee over the various clubs is extended and made more than...
...author presents in this book a "complete and practical system of developing and confirming the memory." His scheme of mnemonics is based upon the psychological explanation of the faculty of memory. The four faculties which are especially to be cultivated by this scheme are concentration of attention, retention of the impression, reproduction and localization. Carrying out this main idea the author has constructed a number of ingenious tables or series of related objects, joining them together by what he calls "links of suggestion." These tables are to be memorized by general training. In memorizing selections of prose, the plan...
...special German library. For this purpose a meeting of all those interested in German or who desire to promote in any way the welfare of the German department, will be held on Tuesday evening for the purpose of considering the possibility of raising funds to carry out the scheme. A sum of five hundred dollars has already been given by Mr. Villard, of New York, towards defraying the expenses, and with that as a basis there seems to be every reason to hope that enough money can be obtained to start a library if those interested take hold...
...heartiest wishes for success go with the innovators, since we feel that from the very fact of the students themselves having assumed the responsibility of the scheme, the need of the improvement is sound...