Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which favor his contentions. The audience render the verdict after quizzing the participants to their own satisfaction. By combining the best elements of the Oxford system of free discussion and the present unsatisfactory American procedure, this most recent innovation in the sphere of intercollegiate argumentation may supplant the existing scheme and provide a stimulus long desired...
...latest, if not the last, discussion of the House Plan, which appears in the New York Times, is perhaps the most authentic extra-official treatment yet accorded to the subject. Confining himself to easy interpretation of the scheme in phrases which have already become familiar by reiteration, the writer nevertheless strikes the same note of optimism for its future that has been heard in all official pronouncements on the question...
Tradition, sentiment, the hopes of the founder, all have their weight on the side of an independent and communal Union, and against an all-Freshman or a hybrid Freshman-upperclass-dining-common room scheme. Practicality is of far greater moment, and the need under the House Plan of such a general club as the Union now is, especially during the difficult initiation of the new, is self-evident...
...Chapman company is not a shipping concern, but sells bonds and real estate, and apparently Mr. Sheedy, the principal promoter, is the real purchaser of the ships. It looks like a promotion scheme, and I appeal to the Senate to stop this paper sale...
...twenty colleges throughout the country this afternoon for the Times Current Events Contest, as described elsewhere in today's CRIMSON, is but the third that has taken place since the inception of the plan, and already it has reached the dignity of an institution. The advantages of any scheme that helps develop an intelligent reading public are apparent. Equally obvious is the desirability of encouraging an interest in affairs of the day among a class that will supply many of the future leaders of the nation, and these two factors help explain the interest aroused by the contest...