Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...scheme has been strongly endorsed by representatives of Yale, Harvard. Pennsylvania, Cornell and by other clubs and individuals who have the best interests of the sport at heart...
...crew management hope, if enough interest is shown in the scheme, to charter a tug to follow the class races on April 11. As the races will be held between four and five in the afternoon, they will not interfere with any college duties. Blue books will be posted at Leavitt's, Sanborn's, and Memorial Hall for men to sign. If fifty men sign, the tickets will be $1.00; if one hundred sign, they will be 50 cents...
...editorial takes rather a desponding view of the decision of the Senior class to wear caps and gowns: "Unless every Senior wears the cap and gown, the main sentimental purpose of the scheme will certainly be lost,--namely, the bringing of Seniors into close relations with each other;" and, in conclusion, it expresses the fear that "it is highly improbable that these distinctions, which have no tradition behind them, will bring together classes which the natural evolution of the University is irresistibly disuniting...
...investigation was made in certain hearings held before the Harbor and Land Commission in 1894, but since the present project is so radically different from the one then considered, and since so many and important changes have taken place in the conditions which bear on the practicability of this scheme, it seems reasonable after the lapse of over six years to ask for this new commission...
...College are apt to leave Cambridge on Saturday. If the Library were open Sunday evening instead of Sunday afternoon, they would be able to spend Saturday evening and all day Sunday at home and return for an evenings' work after a good rest. Under the present scheme, if one intends to accomplish work in the Library, he might as well not leave Cambridge at all. This is the case at any rate with the man who lives any great distance out of town. Personally, I have been very much exasperated very often by the present system and I feel sure...