Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard graduate in London is agitating the scheme of sending an American inter-collegiate foot ball team to England...
Today the elective system of study which has been gradually developing at Harvard, during the past forty years, and especially since 1867, takes another great step forward. The incoming Freshmen Class is privileged beyond any class which has preceded it. For them the scheme of studies for freshman year, hitherto entirely compulsory, has been made mostly optional, the amount only being fixed; and Harvard becomes even nearer than before a real university. The plan which is subject to some slight changes as necessity and experience determine is here described in full...
...left behind in the shade. From Feb. 16 to July 1, 1883, the business amounted to $3,265.62, and this year, to July 1, it is estimated at $7,005.00. Among the advantages next year will be the books ready at the opening of the term, the new furniture scheme described in their circular, and the greater ease with which foreign text books will be procured. The expenses and estimates for next year necessitate, in the opinion of the officers, the raising of the annual fee from $2.00 to $2.50. but to compensate for this the margin of profit...
...words about it. This school seems to have found a solution of the problem which has been puzzling the brains of educators for a number of years past,-how to teach modern languages in classes so that they may become real and live to the students. The scheme is to educate the ear as well as the eye by assiduous practice, so that the languages can be spoken as well as read, and it is almost useless for us to add that this method is the only thoroughly satisfactory one. English, for the time being, is left behind entirely...
...attention has been called to the non-appearance of the elective pamphlet for next year. Several fellows have spoken of this and all seemed to agree that the custom has been, in former years, to have it ready by this time at least. When the complicated nature of the scheme of studies contained in this little publication is taken into consideration, anyone will grant that the time needed for careful and thorough consideration, is considerable. The contents of the elective pamphlet changes so from year to year that it is impossible to find out what you will be able...