Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale News has summed up in a sentence a general emptiness and disconcerting lack of purpose among college students. "We are a prohibitive and self-conscious collection of middle-aged business men without any businesses trying for four years to fill in that alarming want." Is a scheme of education longer to be tolerated which fails to supply the first essential of education--giving purpose to life...
...lily grows. What if a commercial scheme was parent to a national Mothers' Day? Last week, at Washington, D. C., Mme. Schumann-Heink, famed contralto, sent the notes of The Star Spangled Banner and Taps tingling down the spines of many bereaved mothers and a host of delegates to the International Council of Women (see above), as they all stood bowed before wreath-strewn soldier graves in Arlington Cemetery...
...outcome of the Mitchell controversy and a move to forestall a United Air Service. They stress in particular the fact that not more than 30 or 40% of the young men will be able to pass the physical tests. Colonel Mitchell goes so far as to call the scheme "bunk...
...Arizona badmen the father of her tiny ward is the kernel of this tale. It is fed forth with all the usual garnishings of hard riding, sheriffs and a sand storm. Early pictures of the nurse girl struggling to escape from an orphanage had little bearing on the general scheme but were nevertheless the most interesting. Marion Davies is starred and gives an extraordinarily good performance at first, that thins down to the close-up of a lovely maiden type of playing...
Immediately a storm of protest arose from all quarters. Prominent alumni urged the University to acquire the property to prevent the district from being marred. Publication by the CRIMSON of the University's plans for future expansion showed that such a building would bring to nought the scheme for widening Holyoke Street into an avenue connecting the Yard with the "New Yard" of which the Freshman Dormitories are the nucleus...