Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...actual operation. But it was reserved for America, of course, to make the first complete experiment in the matter. At the State Industrial University, at Champaign, Illinois, for a number of years, a thoroughly organized and once successful students' government has been in operation. Of late, however, this Utopian scheme has received a decided set-back, and the fate of self-government for students and of this first quasi declaration of independence of theirs hangs trembling in the balance. A special correspondent of the HERALD, at Champaign, writes as follows, speaking, as will be seen, to a certain extent...
College exchanges and the public speak favorably of our cooperative scheme, and generally commend the movement, though some doubts are expressed as to its success. That cooperation has been successful in many instances in this country is an undoubted fact, but to succeed requires careful management. As some one has said, only a philanthropist ought to manage a cooperative store. The application of the system to a community of college students is certainly novel and, as far as we can learn, unprecedented, and our sister colleges will look upon our undertaking with the greatest interest. Harvard thus occupies the important...
Voted, That 2000 copies of the standing regulations, and about 250 copies of the new scheme, if accepted by the corporation, shall be forthwith printed for the better information of the members of the association...
...grounds to hope will be the case, it will be possible for Harvard once for all, and under the most favorable conditions, to make a practical experiment in the matter of cooperation. Success or failure then will depend almost entirely upon the degree of active support given to the scheme by the members of the society. The plan at least merits a thorough trial by the university. Positive success or probable failure can safely be predicted by no one; the event alone can decide...
...have met with? The plain truth of the matter is this: The Union Railroad Company in past times have never shown the least willingness to comply with the requests of their patrons until they were frightened into making an effort at improvement by the inception of a new railroad scheme. Why, then, should they expect the citizens of Cambridge to favor them? A rumor has been started to the effect that the new horse-railroad will cut through Jarvis Field, and otherwise injure real estate. This is not true; on the contrary, the new road will furnish a direct line...