Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Each individual competitor is required to prepare a preliminary sketch on a single sheet of paper given to him in the class room, working on it not over eight consecutive hours. This sketch is intended to show the scheme that his finished drawing is to follow. Before March 14, the eight best final plans from each school will be sent to the judges, who will meet at the Cornell Architectural School on that date to decide the contest. The award of the prize will be based on the final drawing as a development of the preliminary sketch. The drawings will...
...centre page of the going out number of the Lampoon's 1914 Board, which depicted, the present chairman of the undergraduate committee pointing out the newly finished gymnasium to his grandchildren in 1975. The graduates, however, were only awaiting the approval of President Lowell before furthering a scheme in which many of them are deeply interested...
...argue and argue on them without affecting their course beyond a few details; and we can wear holes in the threadbare subject of their potential influence on individualism, accomplishing little except the creation of the holes. Suggestions as to beneficial modifications are always in order; but attacks on the scheme itself might well rest for the present until it can be observed in actual practice...
...expect, from the introduction, some discussion of standard by which to value present day tendencies, but Mr. Sessions barely ventures on this dangerous ground, suggesting merely, in the course of the article, three critiria--a sensuous appeal, unity of conception, and a harmonic scheme that gives enjoyment. Instead he sets before us the radical, the conservative, and the partisan, counsels us to be none of them, and leaves us with excellent but vague advice. A "radical conservative" would, in all possibility, have ventured further...
...should be sorry to see that principle lost in the resulting combination. Yet it is well nigh impossible to provide for this under any specific rulings without seriously hampering the coherence and smooth working of any joint system. Absence of unilateral stipulations is essential to the success of the scheme...