Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...scheme to add a school of mines to the departments at Cornell is under consideration...
...believe that if the Boat Club authorities should decide upon such action, the college at large would show renewed interest in rowing and that increased subscriptions would flow in to cover the necessarily increased expenses of the club. Of course there may be objections to such a scheme, but if Yale can carry on such a system, it would seem strange that it could not flourish here, where we have more material and better accommodations for winter work. Even if the formation of a second eight be thought impracticable, the selection of a university "four" from the unsuccessful candidates...
...glad to hear of the success of the new Veterinary Department of our university. The first year has proved more successful than even the projectors of the scheme hoped. With increasing years the usefulness of this school will undoubtedly become more apparent, until finally such an one will be generally recognized as an important branch of every university which attempts to give a broad and liberal education...
...more faithful attendance, surely it is easy to notify a man of the fact before he has completed the year in what is deemed an objectionable manner. Visting the sins of last year on the good intentions of this by a warning is obviously not altogether as useful a scheme as a notification last year would have been. If the faculty would only take the proverbial stitch in time, it would save the student the oss of taking the other nine...
Comparing their value, and the slight trouble it would be to procure them, it would certainly seem as if the scheme must appeal to everyone who gives the matter a moment's consideration...