Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...providing for transient, as well as regular members, the two most desired changes would be brought about--membership increased, and the price of board to regular members greatly reduced. In the first place, if the new scheme is adopted, the hall will accommodate those members of the University, who, for one reason or mother, miss a number of meals during the week. Men who breakfast at their dormitories, men in Boston departments of the University, club men whose tables are not open on Sunday, and many others, come under this head. From them have come the chief complaints against...
Those men who were unfortunate in the first assignment are urged to take advantage of this second allotment. It is imperative to the success of the Senior dormitory scheme for the class of 1909 that no men of other classes have rooms in these buildings next year, and a reasonable number of applicants today will insure this condition...
...from the Dining Room and Periodical Room, both of which were illuminated with strings of Japanese lanterns. An attractive feature of the Game and Writing Rooms was the festooning of yachting flags. Red globes and candelabra with a profusion of palms and plants carried out the general color scheme of red and green, while pictures, banners, cushions, lamps, and flowers in and about the boxes were delightfully effective...
...advantages of the Senior dormitory scheme are obvious and of enough importance to determine the great majority of Juniors who believe in a unified class, especially in the final year of undergraduate life, to make application at once for these rooms...
...memorandum book be kept in the office of the Union, in which men who are arranging functions of more or less importance might enter dates and thus avoid unnecessary conflicts of engagements. Such a book was accordingly started with the consent of the Union authorities, but so far the scheme has met with no support. As was pointed out at the time, the value of the book depends entirely upon the spirit with which it is used. Its present incompleteness renders it absolutely worthless. We still believe that a complete record would be of the greatest value, but if another...