Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current number of Harpers. Samuel Hopkins Adams adds his shaft to the many which through all time have descended upon the ancient and honorable estate of matrimony. He advocates a scheme whereby the parties contracting in marriage shall agree to separate for a certain number of weeks in each year, during which period each shall endeavor to reconstitute his or her own individuality. Mr. Adams points out that to the student there comes a summer respite from school and a winter respite from home; to the bricklayer there comes a Saturday afternoon; to the professor, a sabbatical year...
There is in operation in many colleges and universities in this country a plan of scheme on the part of interested undergraduates that would be well and profitable for Bowdoin undergraduates to copy. It has no particular name of its own. In some places, the scheme is known as "sitting in on a course," at Harvard it is known as "vagabonding," and at other institutions the name varies. Needless to say, the practice has many advantages. As haphazard as the plan may prove to be, there is always and often the chance that a so-called vagabond lecture may prove...
...Such a scheme can meet with nothing but the wholehearted approval of students. It is difficult to see why any company of worth should decline to furnish such information. In entering into contracts without it, as they have frequently been obliged to do in the past, graduates have exposed themselves to everyone, from the merchant who wants college men in permanently clerical positions to the fly-by-night promoter. Although at Harvard such advances have never becomes the nuisance they seems to be at Yale, where, according to Mr. Crawford, the rap at the door disturbs April as well...
...ambitions. The first did not count; it was to be Prime Minister. When the chance came he turned his back on it. A life of political ambiguity had evidently settled his pristine urge. During the war he became Director General of Recruiting and author of the famed Derby Scheme, which gave the nation's manhood its last chance to join the colors before conscription overtook it. He next became Secretary of State for War, a post which he relinquished in 1918 to become one of the most popular Ambassadors to France that Britain has ever...
...London, Sir Thomas Beecham, as full of musical energy and notions as his father's factory was of pills, announced last week the foundation of an Imperial League of Opera. His new scheme calls for 120,000 subscriptions of $2.50 annually to provide for an estimated deficit of $300,000; seats for $1.40; a six months' season in London, the rest of the year to be divided among Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow; the company to be organized from such British singers as John McCormack, Edward Johnson, Alfred Piccaver, Joseph Hislop, Florence Austral and Eva Turner...