Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ingenious scheme does not even merit serious consideration, and, unless the University falls into far more evil days than the present, it is to be hoped that such a method of self-advertisement will not be given more than passing notice...
Readers of the "Literary Review,"--they become more frequent every week,--are hebdominally favored with a "Guide" to a "balanced ration for weekedn reading." We approve of the scheme, in fact, adopted it ourself the day we recovered from an afternoon of Sarah Bernhardt by sitting under Billy Sunday in the evening, or vice versa, no matter. But why limit the choice to recent publications? Our own list for the weekend past, after the manner of the "Review," would look something like this...
...universities has been due to impractical plans offered by incompetents. With the new order of progressive music educators, invading our educational system from the public schools to our higher university music is at last winning its place as a study that rounds out an otherwise incomplete educative scheme...
Whether or not this scheme is as practical as it is appealing to the imagination is of course uncertain. The cost of the work, the smoke from the chimneys, the strength of the stacks, the engineering problems, the sanction of the Elevated, etc., are all factors any one of which might make the undertaking impossible. However, we never know what a though is worth until it is criticised. So here is this one--do with it as you will. Yours for the big II. VAN NESS H. BATES...
...that, after all, is the chief significance of the scheme. If it be argued that this experiment has been tried under ideal conditions, it may be answered that prophetic experiments must always be tried under good conditions before they can be approved or condemned...