Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reforestation. A frequently brought forward measure of flood-control has been reforestation. One objection to this scheme is that the Mississippi went on one of the greatest floods of its history in 1844 when the valley was thickly forested...
Like author, like character. Author Walker does his best graphic writing when he talks about Poles, Hunyaks, "bohunks" in general. Again and again he stops his story to look at them, trying always to fit the horror and immensity of their tasks into some scheme. Shaking light from the furnaces illuminates the stupid, pitiful anger of their faces. Author Walker describes "the look of the woman's eyes whose husband fell into a steel ladle and was melted down a year later- they didn't tell her, she found out afterwards - into an ingot...
...present arrangement of the academic year in Harvard University does undoubtedly place a great deal of emphasis upon examinations. This has been one of the periodic criticisms brought against our educational system, and if this is a fault it is to be feared that the new scheme will do little, if anything, to eliminate it. Independent reading in the future is to receive greater encouragement, but the very fact that it is independent wil make it more imperative that it be very carefully examined at the end of the reading period. A professor in charge of a course should, therefore...
...scheme: The artist pays $5 into the general fund for the privilege of exhibiting his first picture, $1 for each exhibition thereafter. To the department store he gives 35% of the purchase price, as commission. The organization makes no profits, spends the enrollment fee to advertise the exhibit. Thus the artist gets his market, the public its paintings...
...graduate schools as well as in the college is the opinion of several prominent officers of the graduate faculties and student bodies. Yesterday Dean H. J. Hughes '94, of the Engineering School, and Livingston Hall 3L, Chairman of the Law School Advisory Committee, added their commendations of the scheme for a new dining hall to those already expressed by Professor G. H. Chase '96, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Professor G. H. Edgell '09, Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture...