Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...clear to everybody that the success of rowing at Harvard depends on the broadest and most systematic plan of competition that can be produced. The old class crew scheme has proved inadequate, for it cannot possibly begin to handle 500 men and give them all races. The best that the class crew system can do is to provide rowing for twenty or twenty-five men in each class...
...Varsity trial eights, and outside of these there was nothing. After the University crew squad was selected the club practically ceased to exist, and in the pleasantest period of the year there was no rowing at all at the club. It then became evident to every one that the scheme had proved to be a complete failure...
...whole situation is the broadest and most thorough scheme of competition that can be devised...
...clubs shall, beginning this year, alternately choose down an alphabetical list of all the candidates for the Freshman crew or the men who wish to row, allowing brothers to go with brothers, etc. This was done last year with 1902, so that it is not an altogether new scheme...
...importance of the new admission requirements to Harvard College and the Scientific School may be illustrated by the fact that they were formulated only after three years of discussion by the Faculty. It is said of the new scheme that it must be carefully administered for several years, mainly owing to the fact that the insistence of the Overseers that algebra and elementary history should be required subjects, diminished the range of election open to candidates for admission and at the same time "impaired the best reliance of the Faculty for preventing the total amount of work required...