Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...poor have been discussed and tried. They have demonstrated the existence of a healthy religious life among us, but have not been quite satisfactory because of the necessarily negative character of their work. After much thought and delay caused by the many difficulties which had to be surmounted, a scheme has been evolved by which every man will have a chance to do what he can for others without neglecting his college work. It is hoped to furnish opportunities of usefulness which will be of permanent benefit both to the giver and to the receiver...
...proposed scheme of a union dinner of the editors of the Advocate, Lampoon, Monthly and CRIMSON is an important and significant innovation. These four publications fill very different places and satisfy very different demands but, after all, their aim is the same. Forming. as they do, the strongest incentive to literary work, they are coming to see that their power in the future must depend largely upon their unity. The apparent rivalry between them has always been more fancied than real. That phase of college journalism by which one paper makes capital by carping at another is past. At Harvard...
...plan for the formation of the so-called Economic Club, which is to occupy rooms in Lawrence Hall is rapidly progressing. The committees appointed some time ago to take charge of the scheme have been hard at work, and will be ready to offer very favorable report at the next meeting of those interested in the establishment of the club. Considerable money has already been collected by subscription, and more is promised. The committee which has charge of the finances feels confident that the sum necessary to equip the rooms in Lawrence will be secured, so there is no longer...
...very near Boston. Then a team picked from the best players of these nines is to play a game on Jarvis Field with the winning nine of the annual Andover-Exeter game. It is not yet surely known whether or not Andover and Exeter will enter into the scheme, but there is every reason to suppose that they will readily consent to form a part of the association. The Andover and Exeter men in college are enthusiastic over the plan, for it cannot but prove of great benefit both to Andover and to Exeter. The incentive given to both schools...
...Princetonian, by its approval of a scheme of written examinations shows that it cannot conceive of the liberal spirit of a university, but would narrow down the life of an American student to that of the grammar-school boy. We would remind the Princetonian that our "new system of college government" is still young, that it must suffer attacks for some time(?) but we firmly believe that the day with come when the wisdom of the step will be admitted, and President Eliot's course acknowledged by all to be right...