Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...execution of such a scheme would involve great expense.- Congressional Record, 1888, speeches of Forney and of Herbert. pp. 9305, 9317; (b). would be sectional, p. 9315; (c) would increase the civil service-McMillin, p. 9323; (d) enough land capable of cultivation exists at present in the United States.- Plumb, p. 7730. For density of population in the different States, see Lalor...
...Columbia College has just been published. The part referring to the graduate department is of special interest to Harvard, as Columbia, in this branch, is the only American college which can at present compete with our own University. Columbia is now considering the advisibility of raising the whole scheme of education to a higher plane, to give more attention to the advanced students than to those in the other departments...
...this object. They are useful in many ways; especially in keeping alive the interest in Harvard in the sections which they represent and in helping men from those sections to become acquainted here. Exeter has for many years been one of Harvard's most important preparatory schools, and any scheme which will be of benefit to both school and college, deserves the support of all exeter men at Harvard...
...transaction can be called nothing else than dishonest. That a man who calls himself a gentleman should stoop to such low means of adding a few dollars to his purse, is inconceivable. We would warn the students against such men. It is to be hoped that their speculative scheme may prove unsuccessful...
There is an attempt on foot to organize a bone corps to take part in the torchlight parade. The scheme, however will be abandoned unless twenty men signify their willingness to join...