Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Blake was one of England's greatest poets and painters. He issued his strange visionary books by a process of his own invention, engraving them, then coloring them by hand. He tried to make every copy different in color-scheme, if not in number and order of the pages. As yet, no satisfactory reproductions of them have been made...
...scholasticism, Woodrow Wilson. Its leaders and student body have for years built up in their minds the pre-disposing background for acceptance of Wilsonian ideas. Moreover, the scholastic fatuity for generalization, natural to their methods of thought, renders college intellects susceptible to the merits of principle that any Wilson scheme is sure to contain, and dull to the faults of application...
Undoubtedly the real contribution of the conference is that it has brought to light the woeful inadequacy of existing knowledge to cope with the problems of industrial unrest. The men who have drawn up the present scheme have asked for criticism and suggestion from the country. They have also undertaken special research along special lines, and will meet later in the month to revise their plan. This part of their labors is admirable. The truth is, however, that the people of the United States have not yet the power or the energy to face industrial problems in a scientific spirit...
Though but recently instituted, the "Technology Plan," now being tried out for the first time in this country by the M.I.T., has already attained a considerable degree of success. That both at Technology and in the industrial world the scheme has been found highly satisfactory is proved by the fact that at the present time upwards of 120 industrial concerns of national prominence have retained the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a consulting capacity. On this list are represented such important corporations as the American Telephone and Telegraph Company...
...Also Profits by Scheme...