Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feature of interest in the scheme of the coming May festival of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society is a cantata for solo voices, chorus and orchestra by Prof. John K. Paine, the words of which are from Milton's ode, "On the morning of Christ's Nativity...
...talked of. Of course the most politic plan is to run the elevated road up to Boston and then endeavor to get it inside the limits. As long as the horsecar service in the city is as good as now, it will be difficult to inaugurate the elevated railway scheme within the city proper. Public sentiment here is undoubtedly against it, and the only place where there is an immediate demand for an elevated road is between Cambridge and Boston...
Those who favor the scheme argue that Harvard by participating in such a contest would show her good will toward and her fellow feeling with other colleges, and thus do away with any idea that she is standing aloof from the rest; but we think the other colleges will fully understand and appreciate our motives for not entering such a contest. Besides, Harvard, by her interest and partial co-operation in the Inter-Collegiate Press Association, has shown that she stands ready to encourage and further inter-collegiate relations wherever she can consistently with her own interests...
...consideration of the new scheme for honors at Cornell University cannot but suggest some defects in our own system. Although in the main no fault can be found with the present system at Harvard, there are a number of details which might be improved. The main point of difference between the systems at the two universities lies in the requisition at Cornell that a candidate for honors in any subject must be in good standing in the other courses not directly belonging to his honor scheme. That is, a candidate for honors in mathematics, for instance, must not only...
...recent action of the Cornell faculty in establishing a system of "honors" is quite an innovation for that college, which has heretofore been opposed to any such scheme...