Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whatever the Senate investigating committee may decide about the fitness of the Bok Peace Plan, members of the University have endorsed the scheme by one of the most overwhelming majorities ever obtained in any referendum held at Harvard...
...have not been content with a simple Yes or No. Some exceedingly interesting qualifications have been attached to the ballots, ranging from absolute disagreement with the Plan to refusal to vote for it because it was "an unpalatable does of casuistry." One man believed that the Plan was a scheme to get the American public to approve unwillingly of a form of world association which it has already repudiated in the strongest possible language" namely, the League of Nations. Another approved of the substance, but protested against the selection of a plan which contained nothing original; and others regarded...
...said at once that Mr. EDWARD BOK's prize for a peace plan has ceased to be open to ridicule. Any man from now on who seeks merely to make fun of it will make himself ridiculous. A scheme which has gained weight and dignity by the names and counsel of ELIHU ROOT, JOHN W. DAVIS, Judge LEARNED HAND, General HARBORD, Governor MILLER, Colonel HOUSE and honorable women not a few is no longer fair game for flippant humorists...
...evils in any institutional system. But those are the evils inherent in human nature, evils which socialist attribute to the system." He sketched the points in favor of capitalism, discussed the Russian debacle and other failures of Socialism, and declared that, until Socialists can produce a clear-cut concrete scheme, there is no justification for replacing the present system, which has evolved slowly and adjusted itself to the needs of society...
...front, with which Coach Winsor experimented in the Tech game, consists of Beals and Hodder exchanging places. The change has aroused some comment in sport circles, and is popularly explained by Beals frequent failure to score under opportune conditions. Supporters of this view point out that in Harvard's scheme the wing is the scoring position, and explain that it was only Beals' unusual ability that kept him in the first string when apparently ineffective at his post by the right boards. This theory loses force, however, when it is remembered that Hodder, the new right wing, is a southpaw...