Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effect that the chairman of a committee of the Student Council would personally discuss and suggestions with men who had ideas to offer. If the project brought forward seemed practical it would be presented to the Student Council for further discussion, and then to the University authorities. This scheme enables a man to explain his idea fully, without the publicity which a communication would bring, or the responsibility of a direct petition to the Office. It provides a satisfactory way for the expression of any constructive criticism...
...anniversary of the Armistice undergraduates turned themselves into street hawkers and sold Poppies in aid of Earl Haig's "Fund for Disabled Soldiers". Over 600 pounds were collected, which is a record in Cambridge for a one day collection. Part of the scheme for attracting money consisted of a mock circus consisting of undergraduates dressed up in the skins of animals who paraded the town making appropriate noises. The evening was much quieter than usual and very few bonfires were lighted where they ought not to have been...
What looks to be a patch of blue sky is visible through the clouded outlook of the American stage in the plans already under way to form a National Theatre. Fifty-six representative theatre directors and producers have organized in New York to put the scheme into effect and their first effort is about to be launched. Their main purpose is to build up a last ditch defence in the losing battle of the legitimate stage, outside of the four or five largest cities, against the advance of the "movies...
With this National Theatre now more than an ethereal scheme, St. John Irvine's plaintive suggestion that the only way out of the present dramatic slump is a Moratorium on the theatre for twenty years, appears to have found an answer...
...hockey for 1923, has made arrangements with Mr. George Brown, manager of the Boston Arena, whereby students of the University may purchase season tickets for the University hockey games that are held in the Arena. This is the first year that any such system has ever been employed. The scheme was proposed by the hockey management as a money saver and as an inducement for students to attend all hockey games and lend their support to the University. The irregularities of purchasing individual tickets have in the past cut considerably into the number of the students who attended the games...