Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whatever can be said for Dr. Drury's scheme of small colleges, and there is not a little, the argument that they would make for individualism does certainly not apply...
...University of Toronto, President of the Association in 1922 (by custom, the presidential address is given by the president of the preceding year). He devoted his time to a retrospective view of biological science, and particularly to the theory of organic evolution and its place in the scheme of life. Evolution is not dead, he said, nor can it be killed by legislative enactment. Any one who refuses to believe in it today is ignorant or bigoted. In its main outlines it has passed out of the realm of theory into that of fact. Evidence for it is far stronger...
...Council of the League of Nations, sitting in Paris, approved two protocols providing for financial reconstruction of Hungary on a plan similar to that adopted early this year in the case of Austria. The gist of the scheme is that Hungary is to turn over the revenue from customs and State monopolies to the League, in return for which the League will float a loan of 250,000,000 gold corona and establish budgetary equilibrium by June 30, 1926. The scheme is to go to Budapest for ratification and is to be discussed by a sub-committee of the League...
...freight-smoke and bells-the places the dusty freight-cars have been, the things they have seen! The life of a trackwalker on the subway, dodging 200 cannonball flyers a day for tiny wages-the sleights of a push cart man -the sandwichmen, those biting commentators upon our modern scheme of existence-the revivalists-the lovers of Little Italy-the bums-the men in the dark-the men in the storm-the men in the snow. Do you know of the white-draped cradle within the door of one of New York's great institutions where, every year...
...search for the latter is worth while, and under ideal conditions it should be possible to furnish the students what they require. The ideal conditions include money for space and equipment. The crowded state of most American high schools would be an unfortunate obstacle to the perfecting of the scheme in this country. But the plan, where it does not involve a meaningless kind of freedom, has great educational value, and the means may in time be worked out. There are about 2,000 schools using the Dalton plan in England; and from...