Word: scheme
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Phidias made his Zeus shortly after the dedication of the Parthenon in 438 B. C. His co-operation with the grandiose scheme* of Pericles for making his city more beautiful had involved him in litigation with certain private patrons and when the Olympians asked him to make a Zeus for their temple he seized the invitation as a good excuse for getting out of Athens. It is unlikely that he worked in "gold and ivory"; he was no metalsmith although he cast some of his heads in bronze; he would not have known what to do with the "lacquer...
...this country and sell them abroad to prevent domestic low prices was no larger interference in the business of agriculture than the functions of the Federal Reserve Board are in commerce and industry or of the Interstate Commerce Commission in transportation. He declared that in the long run the scheme would not cost the Treasury a dollar. That stand should be of material aid to him in Iowa...
...general this scheme is known as the "atelier", and is really the last survival of those old workshop schools where great masters of architecture, sculpture, and painting instructed their apprentices as they worked for the masters from dawn till dusk. The great monuments and works of art of past time were brought forth in such an atmosphere where master and pupil mangled in intimate personal connection of creation and criticism. For sculpture, painting, and the minor arts, the nineteenth century saw the disappearance of the old workshop but fortunately for architecture the tradition comes down to us in unbroken line...
...difficulty Weathering financial and other perils, the college has made its President a captain at the helm with complete power over his ship's crew. In the midst of this adjustment the student's life outside of his classroom appointments, his leisure day, has perforce been excluded from the scheme of things. This has been most fortunate, for he has been permitted to turn it to his own account. He has devised a life...
...teamwork, the tough muscle and the steady eve are the reward of American athletes. And as in the case of the fraternity, the faculty which ignored the existence of this great institution has come to realize that unless it makes of athletics its friend and aid in the scheme of American education, athletics like the fraternity, may put an end on the college itself...