Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...soon as the frost is out of the ground, and will be pushed as fast as possible. The set of plans which was drawn a year ago when the project for the new building was first published, has been abandoned as impracticable, because of a change in the scheme. A new set of plans, now in course of preparation, will be entirely different from the first. Last year at this time the amount available for the building fund was only $60,000, and at that time $500,000 was considered essential for the erection and suitable endowment of the school...
...such it may be called) that is incompatible with those of our competitors. The new football committee, appointed by Captain Burr, is a move toward permanence in the branch of sport that needs it most, and just as we begin to see light ahead we are confronted by a scheme that, if adopted by Harvard alone, as it is too likely to be, will place us in a worse position than we have yet been...
...experience of the West with the East would be similar to our own under the same circumstances. If we are to continue to play the strongest teams of the East, we must play them on an equal footing. If they can be persuaded to cut down their schedules, the scheme deserves consideration. If not, let us use our influence for what seems best, but not perform damaging theoretical experiments upon ourselves...
...into Northern, Central and Southern sections, to hold their preliminary bouts at Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, respectively. The Northern division consists of Harvard, Yale, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Central, of Princeton, West Point, and Columbia, and the Southern, of Cornell, Pennsylvania, and Annapolis. By this new scheme the two teams in each division making the best score in the preliminaries will compete in the semifinals of New York on March 27. The two teams making the lowest score will then be eliminated, and the remaining four will play a round-robin tournament in the finals on March...
...depravity brought against Harvard College by one of its more recent graduates. Harvard cannot thrive without criticism, but this particular attack is unfortunate in more ways than one. The editor finds Oxfordization as perilous a development both for the College and for the critic in question-and disapproves any scheme which would tend to destroy either college spirit or class spirit. This is true: despite the amazing changes wrought by the reform of the curriculum, Harvard College is embedded in class spirit as in a rock...