Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revolutionist, but also a clever international politician, realizing that the lack of great leaders in his country was due to a considerable extent to the poor intellectual standards of the people as a whole, has determined to learn from these much despised American all that he can. By a scheme of cooperative scholarships, established jointly by variout state universities in the west and the Mexican government, the training in the United States of a goodly number of Mexican young men each year has been assured...
With the announcement made May 5 by the War Department refusing to provide planes for the meet, leaders of the Association at first planned to obtain the necessary machines from the Curtis Company; but this scheme proved impractical owing to the cost of renting and insuring the planes...
...charged for four years, though their three years' residence costs but little more than the first three years of any student. This increase is entirely out of proportion also. A student could plan to go through Harvard in three years, paying $680 in tuition, whereas hereafter under the scheme announced, it will cost him at the minimum $1075. This makes an increase of 58 percent whereas tuition has increased only 25 percent...
...these latter, the only hope is some sort of liberal insurance policy such as the "Tribune" contributor describes. There are doubtless thousands of families who would welcome such a scheme were it offered by any reliable company. But since sentiment on such matters is necessarily unorganized, and so inarticulate, it is the insurance agents who must take the first step by establishing a policy of this kind...
...indeed strange that, with the great call for improvement in building methods, particularly in connection with the labor question some enterprising group of workmen in this country have not organized on this co-operative basis. The scheme seems to be a very feasible solution of the difficulties that are encountered at present in erecting satisfactory houses inexpensively. As worked out in England, the plan is one in which the laborer has everything to gain and nothing to lose; here it should prove to be a no less beneficial arrangement...