Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...scheme for admission examinations, details of which are given on another page, provides an adequate remedy for what has come to be a serious evil. The requirements for admission at the present time are of such a nature as to practically necessitate a school course expressly planned for the Harvard examinations. This involves great hardship for many boys in high schools which necessarily shape their courses of study for the great majority who have no idea of going to college. In short, as a result of the specialized character of the preparation for college, numbers of desirable boys have been...
...scheme will increase the representation in College from the country at large. It will serve to bring the University in closer touch with the whole public school system, and should prove a benefit both to the high schools and to Harvard...
...scheme has five main parts which may be roughly stated as: 1. Credentials. 2. Examination in four subjects. 3. Character and marking of examination papers. 4. Satisfactory record. 5. Administration of the new plan...
...Scheme for an Ideal Monetary System for the United States...
...easiest thing in the world for any man, sitting in his study, to write virtuous articles in which he declaims against the greed of people who are engaged in destroying our forests or wasting our water supply. But it is an exceedingly difficult thing practically to work out a scheme of conservation. And this was just exactly what Messrs. Garfield and Pinchot did. Their work was done not only with zeal and disinterestedness, but with the utmost efficiency. They actually put into practice as working principles the theories which a great many men, including I myself, for instance, thoroughly approve...