Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Congress. However displeasing his opinions may be to the Baker March combination, he undoubtedly speaks the mind of the whole country when he declares against a regular army of a half-million men. Half that number, General Pershing thinks, would be sufficient for all probable needs if some scheme of general military training is devised. --Boston Herald...
Professor Julian L. Coolidge '95, in speaking of the work of the American University of American soldiers established in France, expressed himself as feeling that this scheme of the government to fill in the gaps made in the education of so many young Americans because of the exigencies of the war, fulfilled its purpose, judging from the satisfaction expressed by the students themselves. "Certainly the attempt to make students out of soldiers was more successful than the attempt to make soldiers out of students as exemplified by the S. A. T. C.", he said. Professor Coolidge served in France...
...CRIMSON proposes that the class constitutions be altered so that the nominations shall be made by a convention. Direct primaries are open to the same objection as the present scheme--the undergraduates would show no more interest in primaries than they do in elections. The class meetings, if properly advertised, would draw a large gathering, and there the name of anyone proposed and seconded would be put upon the convention ballot. Then, by direct election, it could be shown who were real candidates for the respective offices and who were merely vote-splitters. The four or five leading...
...Glenn E. Plumb, originator of the Plumb plan for the administration of the railroads, will explain the details of his scheme to members of the University in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society of Phillips Brooks House, primarily for the graduate students of the University, but both graduate and undergraduates will be welcome...
...brief, this scheme provides for a national board of directors, one-third of whom will be elected by the workingmen and two-thirds of whom will be elected or appointed by the railroad officials and by the government. This board will control the wage disputes, appoint sub-committees, and will appraise all land taken over by the railroads. The plan also includes arrangements by which the government shall pay for half of the expense of any new additions to the railroad system, and the community benefited shall pay for the other half. The profits are to be divided by further...