Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon the instructional methods now used in Harvard College, more particularly the relation of the tutorial system to the existing requirements for graduation. Many years ago a comprehensive study of our educational methods was made by a committee of the Faculty, and out of its report came the present scheme of concentration and distribution, replacing the old elective system. Indirectly, also, the plan of general examinations and the tutorial system have grown out of this study. So the Faculty has done its share in reorganizing the curriculum during the past decade. Now let the undergraduates tell us what they think...
...committee, moreover, should have an eye to the practical difficulties which all radical departures from established traditions are sure to encounter. It should mix caution with courage. Nothing is easier than to outline an ideal scheme of college education based on the hypothesis that all teachers are supermen and that all students are paragons of industry. But unhappily on such Utopian conditions are in sight. What we want is something that will point the way to a better use of the human material at hand. Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...details of such a scheme we leave to men plainly more qualified than ourselves. We confess, with no little hesitation and some fear, that our own mentality is more of the graduate type than the alumnus. This means, for one thing, that we cherish the pale remains of some anxiety about educational matters in the old sense. And we should therefore like to be allowed to put in a timid plea that some of the profits of Stadium Common, or Bowl Bonds, or Pigskin Preferred, which under the reign of a competent coach would be considerable, be paid...
...beyond being financially profitable," continued Mr. MacFadden, "the scheme is one which may be useful in other ways. The art of the theatre should not be used for propaganda, but it should be propaganda. This sounds like a paradox, but what I mean is that plays can be effectual and lasting, can be true art, only when they deal with matters vital to the people of the world, only when they strike truly and deep. Too many of today's comedies are based on clever lines: they are distorted photographs of modern superficialities...
...statesmen have both wrestled long and unsuccessfully with French financial affairs. Six months ago the Herriot Government fell because it had had to inflate the national currency in order to carry on at all. As he stepped down from office, M. Herriot announced his conversion to the capital levy scheme as the only thing that could save economic France...