Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remedy this system that there is meeting in Chicago at a future date the Committee of 17, together with representative from eighteen of the northwestern sates. This assembly will approve and set about putting into action scheme for marketing wheat by the organization of farmers rather than by manipulators and middlemen, the capital being supplied by subscriptions from the farmers themselves...
...Springs, Ohio, there are on foot preparations for an experiment that will prove of great interest to all educators -- namely the transformation of the little-known college of Antioch into a sort of super trade-school or college of practical business. Mr. Arthur IC. Morgan, who has devised the scheme, intends to transport a number of manufacturing concerns shops and business houses to the college, making them part of the regular equipment. The entire conduct of the place is to be in the hands of the students, who will work in shifts and will divide their time between these occupations...
...idea that all the students will be "working their way." As for business training, a college course, followed by two years in a graduate business school, at present gives the same results in no longer time. On the other hand, there are no obvious drawbacks to the scheme, and it is more than likely that a few years of experimentation will develop it into a useful variety of institution. The progress of the school will certainly be watched with the closest attention by all who are interested in educational evolution...
...profession, its routine of habits, skills and adjustments; but it calls most of all for the spirit of research. The Graduate School of Education would avoid making radicals or iconoclasts of its students, but it would avoid equally making them narrowly skillful practitioners in an accepted educational scheme...
...ownership and development of all natural recources" smacks too much of paternalism to appeal to the average American mind. Attempt to retain the present excess profits, estate, and income taxes, augurs an intensification of these awkward and meddlesome methods of taxation. In order to attract the farmer into this scheme, the program prescribes for him a more flexible and accessible credit system. The proposals for legislative control of the meat packing industry, and for the defeat of compulsory military training serve as bait to a large number of trusting people. At a time when private enterprise is in a weakened...