Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...This scheme of drawing all prominent clubs into one Association has been followed in Ontario by the Rugby clubs and much benefit has resulted from the arrangement. Healthy rivalry has been promoted, and the rules of play which prior to the formation of the Association were arbitrary and ill defined, have been taken hold of with a strong hand, altered, improved and well-defined. The Association is known as the Ontario Rugby Union, and is under the control of an executive committee. It embraces the principal Rugby clubs of the province. Prominent among these are the city clubs of Toronto...
...professors tried it, but everyone was dissatisfied with everybody else's list. And from a few students, to whom the lists were shown, they elicited only laughter. This made the committee feel very shaky; they thought that perhaps the conference committee is after all impracticable, and some other scheme might better be devised...
...pamphlet has been issued by the Yale faculty, containing the optional scheme, with explanations and comments. Some changes have been made on the list published in the summer, especially in the department of English and Anglo-Saxon literature. The changes will make it possible to obtain a very through knowledge of this important subject...
...would be lost. there would be no incentive for the managements of the different organizations to come out ahead financially if they were to be helped out by the other members of the athletic union. Again, we doubt if the subscriptions would amount to so much under the proposed scheme. A man who would subscribe five or ten dollars to each of the three important associations, would perhaps find it impossible to subscribe fifteen or thirty dollars to the three united...
...which might arise from a general order for uniforms given to one manufacturer. We do not see as the results would differ from those possible under the present organization of our athletic associations. There would, as we have said, undoubtedly be some advantages in favor of the proposed scheme, but the manifest disadvantages would seem to clearly outweigh them...