Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University, no such compulsion exists. In fact it is possible to fulfill the Concentration rule with courses all of a more or less elementary nature. But a scheme has recently been devised which will be an incentive to deeper study, without the odium of a compulsion. Already, courses here are classified in three grades: "Primarily for undergraduates"; "For undergraduates and graduates"; and "Primarily for graduates." The courses in the latter group are necessarily open only to men who have made considerable progress in their particular fields. They deal with more minute or obtuse aspects of a subject, and they give...
...Committee on Instruction and the various departments are now drawing up the schedule for next year, assigning to the various courses the hours at which they will be held under the new scheme. Most classes now beginning at 1.30 o'clock will begin at 2 o'clock, and probably most classes now beginning at 2.30 o'clock will be moved to 3 o'clock; but in many cases the hours of classes will be shifted otherwise, and the exact result of the change on the schedule cannot now be predicted. The new assignments will be contained in the pamphlet...
...there ever was a time when the insecurity of an education based upon success in the preceding generation was apparent, it is now. Children educated in pre-war Russia upon such a scheme would be, and are, helpless in revolutionary Russia. The only education which could conceivably be valuable in a period of violent change would be an education which enabled the individual to so far free himself from the immediate prospect as to orient himself and measure tendencies and probabilities. To train for nothing but success in the present business world is to invite intellectual bankruptcy. There were...
...claimed for his scheme that it would have great rainmaking powers, but merely that, by showering clouds and fogs with electrified sand, moisture already in the air could be made to fall over limited areas. The experimenters are continuing their work, undaunted, and important developments may still be looked...
...corporation formed by Great Britain for the expansion of her airways has under consideration a plan for expediting urgent transatlantic mail. Under this scheme urgent letters- on payment of special rates-will be carried in a specially constructed seaplane, capable of a speed of 120 miles an hour, to overtake liners which have left New York harbor for English ports. Guided by wireless, the seaplane will alight near a liner and be hoisted aboard. The wings are to be of the folding type, which reduces considerably the space required for storing. When the ship is still hundreds of miles from...