Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Prince of Wales, at a meeting lately held in Westminster Abbey to consider the scheme for a monument to Dean Stanley, after alluding to the dean as his teacher at the University of Oxford and as a friend, spoke in complimentary terms of our minister, Prof. Lowell, and of the cordial reception Dean Stanley had met in America...
...only staid for a few minutes, what must it have been for one who was obliged to sit still and write for an hour? It is not easy to collect one's thoughts when one is in momentary danger of freezing. A student, after looking over the examination scheme, remarked that he was sure to be "stuck" in two examinations, as they were to be in Massachusetts. This is the general feeling. It is impossible for a man to do himself justice in a room where the mercury is almost down to the freezing point. It is a matter...
...revised scheme of the semi-annuals will be published after the next Faculty meeting...
CERTAIN changes will probably soon be made in the system of Honors in Modern Languages. A new scheme has not yet been definitely determined...
...matter, it is easy to see what the relative position of the two colleges will be, in this one branch at least, a dozen years hence. The study of modern languages, Teutonic and Romance, is surely, if slowly, taking the place of Greek and Latin in the scheme of liberal culture. Harvard will show foresight in not allowing herself to be surpassed by Columbia, the college which, from liberality of spirit and earnestness of purpose, must be regarded as her most formidable as well as most generous rival...