Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...article referred to says: "Even the Iayman visiting Harvard is struck by the almost haphazard architecture and entire lack of any general scheme." Unfortunately this is too true. It is difficult to understand why a consistent plan was not followed in the erection of our buildings, and why distorted ideas of architectural beauty should have been perpetuated in some of our least attractive structures. An intense absorption in the engrossing problems of education on the part of the governing authorities must be responsible for the uneven development of the University grounds. Why the power plant was allowed to drop down...
...only the team be granted a coach next year, would not some such scheme be worth trying? A thorough boom of cross-country running might set it permanently on its feet, and then we should no longer need to discuss its abolition, feeling sure that we were amply and ably represented in what is, after all, one of the best and oldest forms of sport known. M. S. CROSBY...
This will be the first of the series of six lectures on professions, which have been arranged by the Governing Board of the Union this year in pursuance of the original scheme so successfully introduced last year for the first time, namely, to secure men prominent in the principal professions to set forth to the undergraduates the nature and requirements of their respective professions. President Lowell will be present in order to introduce President Garfield...
...course of time these simple methods were outgrown. President Eliot pointed out with unanswerable force that the field of human knowledge had long been too vast for any man to compass; and that new subjects must be admitted to the scheme of instruction, which became thereby so large that no student could follow it all. Before the end of the nineteenth century this was generally recognized, and election in some form was introduced into all our colleges. But the new methods brought a divergence in the courses of study pursued by individual students an intellectual isolation, which broke down...
...smokers, and the Round Table dinners have likewise been held there as in past years; and the Sophomore class, following the lead of the class of 1910, held a pop night in the Living Room in place of the annual class dinner. This year the Juniors instituted a new scheme of having, instead of one of the class smokers, a Strawberry Night, which proved highly successful. The Junior Union Dance, the Faculty Reception and the reception to President Hadley of Yale after the award of distinctions in January were all pleasant affairs and well, attended. The Class Day spread...