Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent significant innovation among the flood of new proposals by President Hoover is his plan, presumably promoted by "Good Will," to reorganize the Foreign Service. Although "Good Will" may be merely another term for attracting business, efficiency and practically are the generally accepted motives for the programme. As a result of observations made on his South American trip, Hoover has concluded that diplomatic primacy should be centered in Latin America rather than in Europe; for there, legations seem to be diminishing in their demands for unusually gifted diplomats, since policies and ententes already are firmly established...
Since the President has stated that contemplated changes in public service would not require a large recruiting of new personnel, he will undoubtedly draft his diplomats from more ornate but less exacting service in European posts, to add prestige to South American embassies. The proposed plan is in accord with the experienced organizing ability of Mr. Hoover, and diplomats will soon learn that the needs of the service outweigh the personal preferences of those who are a part...
...failure to secure an opponent for the Putnam scholastic competition, inaugurated by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, the futility of the plan, as it was executed last year, is obviously suggested; Tardiness and negligence on the part of the University authorities is alleged, but aside from these possible considerations, the foundations of this new scholastic field of competition were none too sound at its inception...
...inability of two parties to compete on unequal preparation is manifest, Princeton with a divisional system complete in two years. Yale with a system quite as dissimilar, Cambridge under a totally different conception of the curriculum, can scarcely compete with Harvard under a divisional plan in absolute accord with the terms of the competition. Harvard has made its own rules. This would be an obvious stumbling block in any field of competition. And particularly in the field of scholarship, one finds no definite limits, no rules of the game, whereby one and all may compete on the same grounds...
...competition where the stakes may be so grossly overrated and misrepresented by scholastic interpreters. All that is gained is superficial, and merely feeds the public and the presses with new mirages. Until Harvard can find some medium for competition other than the present basis of divisional examinations, the plan is destined to a halting fate...