Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...connection with the recent accounts of the Yale crew in the Boston Herald, the following from a New Haven correspondent of the New York Times may be of interest: "Their new shell has been built by Keast, and fully conforms to Yale's new scheme of making quick strokes to win. It is of cedar, and 72 feet in length. . . . . It is believed that under the new plan the whole race cannot be rowed in good form. It will be suicide to attempt a four-mile pull with a bunched or crooked back or an uneven slide. Here...
Prof. White distributed yesterday to the members of Greek II. a printed scheme of the metres of the "Birds" of Aristophanes...
...cent. land bill went over without action, Senator Morrill opposing it as a log rolling scheme...
...very remote, and that an attempt to secure their admission into the college proper would be still more unavailing. This confidence is undoubtedly well grounded. The rigid conservatism of the government of Harvard University has been so repeatedly proved that the danger of the adoption of so radical a scheme as that of co-education for many years yet is very remote indeed. But the vote on the recent proposition is very significant. That the more liberal and progressive portion of the board of overseers should have looked with any favor on the plan is certainly indicative of an imminent...
...appeal of the Longfellow Memorial Association for aid in erecting a suitable memorial to the dead poet in Cambridge, should meet with generous support from Harvard men. It is peculiarly fitting that they should do their full share in promoting the scheme. The memorial proposed is to be erected in Cambridge; the project is backed by the names of many of Harvard's most eminent graduates and professors, and finally Mr. Longfellow was at one time formally connected with the college as a teacher. We have no doubt the appeal will meet with a ready response from Harvard's present...