Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bicycle club met last Thursday evening for the first time in their new rooms, which they have leased from the D. U. till Commencement day. A scheme for a racing fund was adopted. R. H. Davis, W. B. Greenleaf, and C. W. Spencer were appointed to confer with the Athletic Committee about a race meet in the spring; they were given full power to decide all questions in regard to the race...
...that foot ball is thoroughly established, there is a feeling throughout the university that the association, has fulfilled the purpose of its organization and that football ought now to be regulated by managers as are the other teams. But this method has its disadvantages, and there is a scheme on foot to organize an association to be known as the Cornell Athletic association, which is to have control over all athletic sports and contests. The following were the officers of the past year: President, W. G. Howells, '90; secretary, F. D. Davis, '90; treasurer and manager, J. A. Williams...
...formation of a dual league with Harvard. The plan as it is here proposed is at least a fair one, and leaves an honorable opportunity for the three colleges concerned to come to a satisfactory understanding. There are two possible objections, however, to Harvard's acceptance of this scheme. The first of these is that as stated it offered no check to professionalism and to the return of graduates to college simply for athletics. From the stand which Harvard has already taken her position on this point is not at all doubtful. She certainly cannot afford to enter any league...
...Jarvis, Holmes or Norton's field through the winter, as the slide could be built without injury to the ground. It would be easy to plan a slide of considerable length on these fields. The expense would be small if a large number of men entered into the scheme, and the return for the money would more than repay the outlay. If anything is to be done towards obtaining a slide this year, it should be done at once before the snow covers the ground. I hope that all men interested in tobogganing will help to carry out this suggestion...
...question, then, of the dual league, while it of course arose, it could not in justice determine Harvard's action. And yet our correspondent is wrong in stating that the dual league is purely a Harvard scheme. The CRIMSON has had occasion to consult some prominent Yale men upon the subject, and while they have indeed spoken guardedly, they have yet assured us that the sentiment of Yale was in favor of the scheme. The exceptional good fellowship displayed at the Spring field game also, may justly be regarded as an index of Yale's sentiment; and more than...