Word: scheme
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Union. Every delegate to the Methodist Quadrennial Conference (except 10 Oklahomans, 1 Negro and 2 others), voted for reunion with the Methodist Church South. a motion to adopt our resolution for unity." Thus he referred to the scheme of organization which he had devised to make union possible. It provides for one national Church having two jurisdictional sections, South and North. Concluding his speech the Bishop said: "It is a signal triumph of the unifying power of the passion and cross of Jesus Christ...
...Chinese have happily hit upon a scheme which may prove a practical solution for the American problem of illiteracy. The facilities for acquiring a reading and writing knowledge of English are widely available; school attendance is compulsory for a number of years in every state; extension courses are offered by most metropolitan universities; the Y. M. C. A. and Americanization bureaus conduct innumerable elementary courses. At the same time the tide of illiterates which once came from Europe has been checked by law. What is now necessary is apparently a broadcasting of an appeal to make use of these facilities...
...have never seen so many felonies committed by one individual. . . Here is a man who devised a scheme to defraud, and carried it on almost entirely by the use of the mails. He has testified that he wrote 2,500 letters, and, if so, he is guilty of violating the statutes 2,500 times. He is money under false pretenses. He has violated not only written laws but laws of his own conscience as well...
Letters endorsing the scheme were received from Col. E.M. House, Newton D. Baker, Edward W. Bok, Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, President of the University of Virginia; Dr. Kenneth C.M. Sills, President of Bowdoin College; Dr. Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School; William Allen White, Dr. W.H.P. Faunce, President of Brown University; William Marshall Bullitt...
...Haven, Conn., May 9.--On a muddy field Cornell defeated Yale 9 to 0 in lacrosse at Ithaca today in a game whose outcome was never in doubt. McKeon and Radel starred for Yale, but superior stick work and scheme of play resulted in Cornell victory. The Yale team left for Hobart after game...