Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Almost a year ago the management of the Union was reorganized so as to place considerable responsibility in an undergraduate vice-president and committee. The result of the change clearly justifies a continuation of the present scheme. The Union has supplied the University with unprecedented opportunities to receive information and to hear opinions expressed by many prominent men on a wide range of subjects; and it has made numerous improvements such as extending the facilities of the library reading rooms and dining service for the convenience of its members. It has been open to meetings, entertainments, and dinners...
...September in order to give the Freshmen counsel when they most need it. Consensus of opinion approves the principle of the advisory work, but feels that its application has not been proportionately efficacious. What the upperclassmen accomplish next year will determine for either the continuation or abandonment of the scheme...
...failed to do. In striving to keep up the production of the industries of the country, and yet not weaken his regime, he has tried nationalization, socialization and communization which last is only a development ad infinitum of the principles of the first two. None of these schemes accomplish the result he had hoped for, and Taylorization--making production 100 percent efficient--served only in raising Russia's output to 25 percent of the normal. The absurdity of his last scheme--that of using the water powers of the Ural Mountains to generate free electricity for the whole country--would...
...recent proposal of the Junior Class at Yale is adopted, the motion picture industry will have a new field to invade. The scheme is to record life at Yale by means of the cinema. In this way, alumni coming back for class reunions could review the events of their own time. Such a vivid reproduction of college life is highly practical and would be a source of much pleasure to those graduates who will have been out of college for some years...
...This scheme will help the farmers to some extent, but according to Senator Ladd, more must be done by the Government to encourage production. There must be an end of the state of war with Germany, since she is making an honest attempt at democracy. Profiteering should be made a crime: there should be an end to gambling in wheat: labor hold be as well protected as capital before the law. There should be established an organization, tending for world peace on sea and land, but one not likely to embroil the United States in petty European quarrels. Above...