Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this incidental practice is of course incomplete; furthermore, it can be undertaken by relatively few of those who might care to consider a career in one of those fields. For these reasons, the CRIMSON and the Lampoon have combined in this scheme of advertising conferences, which will be led by men experienced in the business, and are intended not only to outline the possibilities of advertising as a career, but to consider some of its applied problems. These problems concern not only the profession of advertising itself, but, as an adjunct, almost every branch of trade and industry. Consequently...
...Library authorities, quick to serve the convenience of the greatest possible number, have decided to give half the scheme a trial, and remove at least the second-named inconvenience. Consequently, books may now be returned early on Sunday mornings. If the new box proves its usefulness, is well fed and not abused, the other half of the plan can be carried out later...
...demand for football tickets so far exceeds the limits of the Stadium that no scheme of distribution can be expected to satisfy all applicants or even to be accepted by them as just. Many persons believe that in the Harvard seats last year the obvious hostility to Harvard teams was caused by the restrictions imposed on members of the University who were not graduates of the University and were supposed to be less interested in Harvard athletics than Harvard graduates. It is the purpose of the Committee to study the situation with care before the next distribution of tickets...
...these obstacles can be avoided. One, the loss of the stimulus of spoken lectures, has already found a simple remedy--the radio. Special text books, too, may eventually be made self-explanatory, so that even a second Tarzan will find no difficulty in understanding them. In any case the scheme seems a possible though only a partial answer to the question. If the proposed experiment at Columbia proves at all successful, the educational mountain may yet come to Mahomet...
...first setting is a large room, whose walls are of rough, heavy plaster; the next is the stronghold of a smuggler band; and the last an ancient, tropical garden. The color scheme of the sets becomes more striking, until the garden furnishes a brilliant climax in bright orange and violet. Restrained realism is the purpose throughout...