Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been the results of the new method of admission examinations adopted by a vote of the faculty in 1886. The members of the last entering class have had unusual advantages in their admission examinations, in that it was their privilege to choose almost any combination they wished from a scheme of examinations including a wider range of subjects than has ever been given. Under the former scheme of admission examinations, the common method of entering was by presenting all the required elementary subjects, together with either French or German, and, of the advanced subjects, Latin and Greek with composition...
...editorial staff will be hung on the wall, and as premiums will be awarded the best college publications, it is hoped that a very large number of papers will be exhibited. The CRIMSON has recently received one of Professor Parks' circulars, and is doing its best for furthering a scheme which will undoubtedly do credit to American colleges...
...circumstances for there is no immediate need of lighting the yard, and the law school library is lighted with gas. If the corporation wish to show themselves really earnest in the matter, let them begin at once with the college library and then proceed later with the rest their scheme...
...faculties are on an equal footing, a thing, they said, which could never take place when a student first obtains his general education at a college and then studies for his professional degree at a postgraduate school. This proposed radical change has given way to a more conservative scheme. At present the trustees are debating as to whether they should make the courses in the first three years entirely compulsory. They object to the introduction of the elective system as is now in vogue at Harvard, because, as they say, the professors in the higher courses are compelled to give...
...West does not want such aid, and is opposed to such a scheme.- Cong. Record, speeches of Symes and of Teller...