Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Theorists suggested that M. Loucheur went to London for the purpose of interesting the British Government in his scheme to form a separate Rhine State-and possibly the Saar basin would be included in the scheme-under the protection of the League of Nations. The scheme is an old one, and it seems probable that he did not bring the question up at London...
Some city churches already have daily vacation Bible schools for the summer months. The Gary plan provides a definite time for religious instruction. The parochial schools of the Roman Catholics provide religious and secular instruction. The Protestants have no national scheme of combining these two fields of instruction...
...ultimate panacea. "The day of benevolent despotism fades into the background; from now on the compelling force will be individuality." Yet Harvard, where the system has had a trial of years, is still wondering where to find the "initial interest." Perhaps the small difference in Princeton's scheme and the fact that it is not applied to all departments here, are the desired clue. Perhaps the University fails to appreciate what it has . . . Or perhaps Princeton five years from now will be less sanguine...
...speaker brought out clearly the difficulties entailed by the adoption of any set plan, and the need of modifying it as the University developed. He proved, however, that some sort of an orderly scheme was imperative, and that, although it might take generations to complete the work begun, the end in view was worth the most careful study and consideration...
...interview with the Khan of men at University Hall. I was perfectly frank with him. I do not intend to be bound by examinations and tests. This whole scheme of sampling information is preposterous. A man's knowledge is his own property and it is outrageous to expect him to spill it out in blue books for the benefit of any dolt-headed instructor. And besides, I am not going to leave any data here to help these hirelings of the Boston bankers, as Upton Sinclair so well puts it, start another Boston police strike...