Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...effort to bring about closer athletic relations between Ivy schools the News suggestion embodied a plan for a conference of coaches, athletic directors, and undergraduate representatives. Under the proposed scheme each school would have three representatives on the conference board...
...Canadian press spoke out. Said the Toronto Telegram: "The whole program looks like a political sideshow designed to put up a front of doing something without arousing ill feeling on the part of those who are called up." Said the Globe & Mail: "All military experts reject [the scheme] as comparatively useless. . . . Soldiers who had barely learned to shoulder arms and form threes would be no more effective against the highly trained and mechanized forces of the enemy we are now fighting than an unorganized mob equipped with pitchforks...
Late in 1938, while Great Britain's Neville Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax were trying to appease Mussolini, De Man went to see Romains in Paris, told him of a scheme to have a peace conference called by one of the five sovereigns of northern Europe (Belgium's King Leopold, Norway's King Haakon, Sweden's King Gustaf, Denmark's King Christian, The Netherlands' Queen Wilhelmina). Four of them were to write to the fifth (Leopold) urging him to save the peace of Europe; then Leopold was to appeal to Chamberlain, Daladier, Mussolini and Hitler...
...studies made by Bulfinch, University Hall looks like a state capitol, and it was to stand alone in the center of the Yard, which was to have a fringe of buildings along the street on all four sides. University was erected in less pretentious form, and the grandoise "fringe" scheme was forgotten when the old Gore Hall Library and the old Appleton Chapel were put on sites now covered (and more) by Widener and the Memorial Church. All these were set like buildings in a park, embowered in fine old trees...
...mall, created a new "Yard" to the east of University Hall between the chapel and the library. Sever was built (1878-1880) to close this on the eastern side. Robinson and Emerson beyond its form an open-sided quadrangle on Quincy Street, which is of course the English scheme previously referred to. Then President Lowell, by building Lionel, Mower, Straus, Lehman, and the Wigglesworths, brought back the "fringe" system proposed in Bulfinch's day, so that now all of the various plan schemes are represented in the composite group on the college plot. This is less satisfactory than...