Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposal for Junior managerships was referred to a committee after the Council had decided not to vote on it. The scheme had been brought up by certain of the major sport managers and opposed by others. The plan specifies that there shall not be Senior managers, and provides for a possible elimination of Sophomore competitions, so that the Freshman manager would automatically become University Manager in his Junior year, and have only an advisory capacity in his year of divisionals and graduation. The Council discussed the question, heard the arguments for and against, and voted that a committee be appointed...
Independent investigation has brought to light the fact that Pantaleoni, manager of Baseball and Sherbourne, manager of Football, represent the opposing factions. It was found that F. T. Baldwin '24 was the originator of the scheme and that the Baseball and Track managements have been enthusiastically backing him up. Hockey and Football man- agers are known to oppose the plan with equal vehemence...
...causes that brought about the new scheme, and the motives of its founders are best expressed in the following foreword to the booklet...
...fish, but of sending English manufactures to South America to be exchanged for shiploads of gold, und for taking over and miraculously disposing of the English national debt in sixteen years. Parliament was favorable and Mr. Walpole, the Cassandra of that generation, was deserted through his opposition to the scheme. "It seemed as if the whole nation had turned stock jobbers. Exchange Alley . . . was blocked by crowds. Every fool aspired to be a knave. . . . Innumerable joint-stock companies started up everywhere, soon receiving the name of bubbles", such as a project to carry on a whale fishing trade, by name...
Whoever originated this scheme must have been studying American advertising methods. On the ship are delegates who will deliver lectures at every stop. There is, of course, a cargo of the usual "literature" on board. And there are sample automobiles, aircraft, electrical appliances, ripe olives, and--one guesses chianti...