Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...though this latest vote is but an expression of judgment, as such it is of great importance; for it defines the position of the Athletic Committee and is a practical endorsement of its scheme for the improvement of football. It is highly improbable that the Faculty will take any action in opposition to the Corporation and Overseers, that is, by forbidding students under its control to play intercollegiate football. And if no positive action is taken, it may fairly be hoped that football will be played next fall between Harvard and other colleges. Just what this game will...
...Historic Harvard" scheme of a series of four or more lectures to be given during the present spring would undoubtedly meet with great success could it be satisfactorily arranged. There are many gentlemen both among the residents of Cambridge and the professors in the University admirably fitted to speak upon the subject of "Harvard in the Past." Surely it would add much to the interest of our college life if we knew more of the historic events connected with the origin and growth of the college. We wish to give our hearty support to the plan and urge its immediate...
Plans for a University infirmary have been under consideration for some time but a lack of available funds has made it impossible as yet to accomplish much that is definite in that direction. However, as the need is so great, it is intended to formulate some sort of a scheme for meeting the present wants, which can be set definitely before the University in the near future...
...whole scheme is adapted to but a small portion of the needy, viz: the homeless. - (a) Applicable to unencumbered individuals and not to families: Contemp. Rev. Vol. 67, p. 64 (July 1892). - (b) Class of homeless unemployed not large for so great a scheme: Riis, How Other Half Lives, 89; Contemp. Rev. Vol. 62, p. 64; Forum...
...scheme is objectionable even for the homeless. - (a) The City Colony is objectionable. - (1) "Shelters" encourage vagrancy and dissolution of family ties by wife - desertion: Contemp - Rev. 62, p. 65-66, 70; Riis, p. 82. - (2) "Elevators" attract but few of them. - (x) Laziness: Forum 16, p. 754-5; Contemp. Rev. 60, p. 253.- (3) Occupants become willingly dependent on charity: Contemp. Rev. 62, p. 75-76. - (4) Labor bureaus of but slight advantage. - (x) Employers distrust applicants. - (y) Salvation sympathizers discriminate against other workmen: Contemp. Rev. 62 p. 71-2. - (5) "Salvage Brigade" no field for work...