Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...complete the training for officers. Therefore the proposed plan has been designed to teach as much as possible, but primarily to arouse interest in military affairs, and to teach each individual how much there is to learn and how little he knows. It is hoped that the proposed scheme will create great interest in Plattsburg. In fact, the whole plan may be considered as a part of the general Plattsburg movement...
...plan has not yet been worked out in any great detail, but a general scheme has been mapped out. The course, which is to begin immediately after the Christmas recess, will comprise two hours a week of drill in the fundamentals of tactical formations, and a supplementary lecture of one hour, intended to take up military science from a more theoretical point of view. The drill is planned to be held under the direction of a United States army officer, assisted by those men who have already had some military training in one of the troops, batteries, or summer camps...
...sweep down up on Cambridge. Our lighter contemporary has already suggested that the lamps were anything but neutral, but with their present aureate decorations the worst foars of a Teutonic invasion seem realized. Would it savor too much of a carping spirit to suggest that the present color scheme might be toned down with great advantage...
...gladiatorial contests proceed under faculty supervision and patronage. Alumni contribute their support to screwing up athletic competition to the highest semiprofessional pitch. They lend their hallowing patronage to fraternity life and other college institutions which tend to emphasize social distinction. And the college administration, in contrast to the European scheme, has turned the college into a sort of race with a prize at the goal. The degree has become a sort of honorific badge for all classes of society, and the colleges have been forced to give it this quasi athletic setting and fix the elaborate rules of the game...
Many different relief departments are constantly asking for aid which it is impossible to give promptly. Consequently the originators of the scheme for a base fund hope for an immediate as well as a generous response to their appeal...