Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chemistry and history were puton the list of courses counting for a degree. The most of these weredropped, however, and it has been deemed advisable this year to continue only the above mentioned subject-geology-on the list. This decision of the Faculty in no way affects the regular scheme of the Summer School. The courses on its list this year will be more numerous than ever before, and every advantage will be offered those wishing to pursue courses of summer study...
...plan is to establish a special German library in Sever Hall on the same plan as the French library which has proved of great service to students in that department. We are heartily glad that Mr. Villard has come forward and given such material aid to the scheme. After the subscriptions have been started in such a royal way the rest of the money needed ought not to be long in coming. We urge all interested in the matter to subscribe as much as possible...
...enjoy some of the good results of the library. The benefits of this plan have already been pointed out and must be apoarent to all, so that anyone who has anything to do with the German department should stand ready to do anything in his power to further the scheme...
...more complete and systematic. By having a separate room, as in the Evans library of political science, greater seclusion and better opportunities for quiet study could also be secured. The Evans library has proved of the greatest service to students of history and political science and by the proposed scheme the same advantages would be furnished to German students. The proposition is a good one and deserves the support financial and moral, of all interested in the study of German literature...
...allow there lower masts of a ship to pass under. This trunnel would have been very expensive, and it was also found that the expense that would have to be increased in sending down the topmast of vessels would offset the advantage gained by the canal, so the scheme was a bandoned. The plan of a ship railway was declared by engineers impracticable for mechanical reasons and by seamen, on account of the strain imposed on a vessels hull by lifting it out of water. The Panama canal has proved impossible on account of a river near it which cannot...