Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Sumner of Yale said recently to an interviewer: "I have examined with great care the new Harvard scheme, and I think it an admirable scheme. It is judicious, and marks an important step in the improvement of university education...
...every conceivable position. They are all dated, I suppose to give individuality to the different ones. Each sketch, I conclude, represents the ideas of a certain lecture given, say, No. 24, or No. 26. The affixing of the dates, then, to the portraits is really a "great scheme." In this note-book of Snodkins we find also sketches of almost everything else in the room, of busts, desks, and students. Occasionally there is a scene from last night's play, doubtless one of Snodkins' notes on unproductive consumption...
...following is a brief description of the scheme: A general division into Foreign news and American news; the foreign news to be subdivided into political, economic, social, etc., as for example, the Congo Conference, the Soudan Question, the Franco-Chinese War, Dynamitism, Nihifists, Socialists, and Anarchists, etc.; American news to be subdivided in the same way, for example: The Nicaragua Treaty, Reciprocity Treaties, the Negro Question (including the Negro Scare following the last election), the Silver Question, Strikes, Trades-unions, Monopolies, Civil Service Reform...
...feel that we have thoughts and desires which are profoundly shameful; we have moments and seasons in which we feel very wretched and guilty. There is an anarchy in our souls which seems somehow to accuse us of treason and rebellion. But what does all this become in the scheme of fatalism? A delusion, a disease. Guilt cannot slip in through the network of necessary causation. If my ancestors were vicious, if my bringing up was bad, if my temptations were strong, why should I up-braid myself? Yet how am I to account for this consciousness of sin, which...
...case the faculty decide to institute this system of conferences at once, an election shall be held similar in plan to the election provided for above. Persons then elected shall hold office until replaced by the operation of these scheme...