Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commended for pursuance. The tutors are thus given an added degree of eminence in the mind of the tutee, and the student is given a further opportunity to prove his self-reliance and his abilities for creative work. The saving grace of the whole scheme of both lectures and tutorial work lies in such a mediative policy, for at present the tutorial and needs strengthening and the course requirements need to be made less stringent. The balance between the two methods once attained, Harvard's plan of education will be as effective in the American locale as is Oxford...
...here there is a lacuna in the manuscript. Whether or not the author was seized with a fatal disease, lacked a rhyme scheme, lost interest those are questions which the reader must answer for himself. Suffice to say that in this fragment we have one of the loviest examples of the old Welsh. The translation is practically a literal one with the exception of the word "But", which is written as "However" (from the German "Sed" etc. Vide Med. Phil...
...project for a new privately owned dormitory to rise on the corner of Mt. Auburn and DeWolfe Streets has completely collapsed, according to information recently obtained from the promoters of the scheme. Plans for the structure, which was to replace the frame houses now standing opposite St. Paul's Catholic Church on DeWolfe Street, were announced last April, and it was understood at that time that the construction work would begin within a few months...
Inquiries this fall into the progress of the scheme have revealed the fact that the original promoters had bought up considerable land--in Cambridge and nearby cities with a view to extensive real estate development work. The proposed private dormitory on DeWolfe Street flanking Westmorly Hall was part of this project. The land was purchased by what are commonly known as shoe string methods, however, and the mortgages which were taken out to finance the promoters scheme, have been fore closed. The property has now passed into other hands and the dormitory project has been definitely abandoned...
...Place in the sun" for Spain in the European scheme of things political, under the tutelage of Britain...