Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief difficulty lies in the appropriation of sufficient capital to finance the scheme. The present tentative plans call for an issue of bonds to cover the cost of construction and the devotion of fees and membership dues to the payment of the interest on these bonds. In the meantime, however, the Golf Association is anxious to have all players in the University cooperate by mailing their summer address to the CRIMSON in order that they may receive literature and other information on the subject
...late years it has been the custom to divide the time of the meeting into a day of work, with speeches and attention to graduate problems, and a day for sport. This scheme will be carried out again this year with slight modifications. The meeting will open officially on Thursday evening, June 15, at the Harvard Club of Boston, at which time the routine business will be disposed...
...this scheme of things the tutoring schools are worse than parasites; they are a postive check upon any sort of advancement in educational methods, as well as upon any building of character that the college might accomplish--and they must go. First, they must be put out of the college buildings; second, students must be enlightened as to the frequent unreliability of their notes; third, and traditionally greatest, the college must inspire the students with sincere interest in their work. Then, and then only, will the college be even approximating its ideal. These are the sole ways in which...
...gigantic symbol everything connoted by Wall Street, the crowded fifth of the East Side, the conspicuous failure of democratic government; above all the noise, confusion, and materialism of American life raised to the n-th degree. Consequently, the announcement yesterday of the launching of a vast scheme to create a greater New York in the true sense of the word, a scheme planned and backed by Wall Street, to be carried out in cooperation with the East Side and the rest of the nine million citizens, throws a brilliant array of light into a gloomy outlook...
...Soviets' delegation at Genoa, through Comrade Rakowsky, has given an ingenious explanation justifying Russia's confiscation,--or "expropriation", to use the preferred Bolshevik term,--of allens' private property Pointing to the right of eminent domain exercised by all "bourgeois" governments, they declare that under the Russian scheme the same result is obtained, merely in a different way; for instead of paying for the property, it is merely nationalized, "given to the people",--which, they say, is obviously the same in the end as direct compensation...