Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were cut to one seat. Most of the fault found, however, by those who receive two seats, is due to the fact that very few of them receive seats on the side of the playing field between the goal lines. Below is a brief outline of the scheme of distribution in accordance with the recommendations of the 1910 committee...
...distribution is entirely by lot in each group. In fact, the clerks who are doing the work never pay any attention --for that matter do not know the names of one in a thousand of the applicants. They proceed merely on the general scheme without regard to the personality of any applicant...
...average man. On the other hand, when life is planned as a series of steps, the conquering of each step is a victory and the individual is led on, spurred and encouraged to conquer the next step. If a series of steps is left out of your scheme; if a short out is taken, you are gambling with your future. A few take the short cuts and seemingly get away with it--but I believe that if one could really see the inside, they would find a lacking which cannot then be filled...
...Some years ago the division of education made an exhaustive study of the teaching methods used by one of the largest and best organized departments in Harvard College. The result of this study indicated that a vulnerable point in our whole scheme of instruction is the necessity of relying to a considerable degree upon the competence and judgement of immature assistants whenever courses grow beyond a certain certain size...
...Violins of Cremona" represents the interior of a violin shop in Italy in 1750, the color scheme being chiefly red and brown. The walls are very massive, and at the back of the stage a large shop window looks out on a street in Cremona with a "piazza" beyond...