Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...that, after all, is the chief significance of the scheme. If it be argued that this experiment has been tried under ideal conditions, it may be answered that prophetic experiments must always be tried under good conditions before they can be approved or condemned...
Melville E. Webb Jr., foremost Boston Sporting Editor, has the following to say in commendation of the scheme...
...meeting of the delegates last week, at which the University was not represented, is reported to have declared in favor of six-man hockey, and of a scheme whereby each member of the league would play every other member. Additional colleges would probably be allowed entrance to the group it was announced...
...solution of our melting pot problem is closely involved with this idea. Americanization is not to be learned from books. Teaching children a sense of co-operation is more valuable than any scheme that could be broached along those lines. The sacredness of the community should be taught in every day school life. There are three elements in democracy, so well expressed in the Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite, of the French revolution. We have overstressed the first two. The war did bring out the last idea, but transiently. "We shall never realize our democracy," said Mr. Osborne, "until we recognize...
...army thought certain qualified men would profit by further training, it might send them off to college and keep them on the pay roll at the same time. The objection to the present scheme is that the army gains recruits at the expense of our colleges. The safe answer to such a plan is Princeton's: "that while there are no scholarships to be set aside for the purpose, money is available to pay the expenses of qualified enlisted men." Long before the army ever thought of this device, money was available for qualified men. Offering it on these terms...