Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Knox, American Secretary of State under Taft's administration proposed a magnificent scheme for the neutralization of the Manchurian railways. The scheme was planned with a view to sop he existing practice of rate discrimination and facilitate the transportation of foreign merchandise there. It failed completely. Both Russia and Japan made strong oppositions. They would not allow any meddling in the territories which they considered as their spheres of interest. At present practically all the railways are run by semi-Japanese Government officials, and by unfair treatment of foreign merchants and deliberate cheating of the Chinese tax officials the only...
...manifestations of undergraduate "thuse" which we have seen at pre Princeton mass meetings, what is to prevent John Harvard from making a new kind of joyful noise at next year's encounter with the Tiger May I suggest, too, that the CRIMSON stands in a position to promote the scheme by calling, for competition or at least by popularizing the project, and enouncing the demand? W. H. George '23 November...
...this practical age, we are much inclined to regard good citizenship simply as an active participation in the life of the world as it is--the ability to fit into the general scheme and contribute to the common causes. Efficiency is the pass word, and Intelligence the be-all and end-all, in this conception. This end is obviously worthy, but it is imperfect; mere intelligence is not as great as intellect, and efficiency in itself is not progress. True citizenship in something more than being a "success" in the eyes of what is called the World. It is rather...
...other objection to the plan arises: will it bring out the vote of the large number of men who do not believe class officers necessary? But this can be settled only by trial; let us give the scheme a chance to prove its value. M. A. BEST...
...fresh the Mendelssohn symphony sounded! Perhaps the harmonic scheme appears rather evident to some. The work was composed eighty-eight years ago. Many question the title of "Italian" symphony because the first three movements do not suggest Italy in any way. Mendelssohn was not writing a tone-poem. What exquisite light passages for strings it contains, and what a wealth of thematic material so skillfully developed...