Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plan for giving public performances of plays by students in Professor G. P. Baker's dramatic composition course, English '47, has just been completed. The new scheme will be inaugurated in Agassiz House Theatre next Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 o'clock. At this time will be produced "Molly Make-Believe," a four-act comedy built by Eleanor Hallowell. Abbott Coburn from her novel of the same title. Tickets may be obtained at the Co-operative Branch or at Agassiz House on the nights of the performances...
...number of misspent college courses is to be found primarily in an irrational and haphazard beginning. Few are the students, who, starting out with no definite plan of study in their mind and no inclination to form one, ever cease their academic meanderings in order to follow a rational scheme of mental training. As they begin, so they end, intellectual skirt-dancers. To avoid such lamentable wasters of educational opportunities, the system of concentration has been put into force. This afternoon, the founder of the scheme, President Lowell, will speak to the Freshmen on the "Choice of Electives," and will...
...spirit that actuates the scheme is of the highest order. To further the ends of justice, not to dispense charity, is the fundamental motive for this new institution, and with such a purpose its success will be great. President Eliot recently delivered a speech in which he pointed out the duty of the Law School to lead in the movement to secure legal reform in this country. In the establishment of the Legal Aid Bureau to secure more equitable justice for all the students of the Law School have taken the first definite step in the direction President Eliot...
...unite these two papers that are now competing in a single field, was made two years ago. The project failed at that time because of a lack of proper support. Since then the plan to merge the Advocate and Monthly has been seriously agitated, and consequently the present desirable scheme is expected to be more successful...
...senate, the governing body, have approved the idea and have arranged to confer with Oxford with a view to obtaining its co-operation. Going still further, the promoters of this plan hope to see the idea broadened until the civil service and the municipal railway are included in the scheme, by making promotion dependent upon military efficiency. Several factors have contributed to the launching of this proposal, the principal ones being the German war excitement, Lord Roberts' campaign in favor of universal military service, and the nationwide discussion of the value of the consolidated territorial force of Lord Haldane, former...