Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organised into clubs of about eight men each, under the general direction of third-year men. Membership in these clubs is, of course, not compulsory, but owing to the valuable training which the activities of the clubs afford, about 80 per cent of the first year men join. The scheme has won the hearty approval of the faculty, who urge the new students to affiliate themselves with some one of the organizations...
...Then, last week, Secretary Mellon announced a sound, simple plan of his own to meet the present situation. Republican harmony-artists said it was a "new interpretation" of the President's scheme, but in reality it is both a gentle repudiation of the Coolidge plan and a rebuke to the Democratic zeal for a general tax cut. Mr. Mellon wants the surplus to be credited to income taxes payable in 1927. Said he: "With only a few months' test of the Revenue Act of 1926, common sense requires that we do not act precipitately. . . . The necessity that...
...League games, formulating definitely the hitherto somewhat vague etiquette of Touch Football. An interesting experiment has been attempted in the time quota allowed for the contests. Twenty-five plays can be used in each period and when this number has been completed, play automatically stops. This scheme was proposed for regular football games last year but was not adopted. In the Touch Football League, the 25-play period has worked out very successfully according to M. A. Cheek...
...McLendel Simmons of North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee, and many another anti-Administration man would champion such a plan. So what could be wiser than for the President to be Champion Tax Cutter No. 1? In the first Cabinet meeting after election day he explained his scheme, then he held a short conference with Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and General Lord, Director of the Budget Bureau. It mattered not if the general policy of Mr. Mellon was to use Treasury surplus to retire the national debt; this time the President had to make a political move...
...sense of selfcontrol, an appreciation of beauty, a philosophy of life. Athletics represent but a small part of that ideal and football a lesser division of athletics. The Big Three believe that the justification of football lies in its development of the student in its part in the scheme of education. Victories or defeats as such have nothing to do with the efficacy of this ideal. As Yale, Harvard and Princeton live this ideal they will earn the right to be called the Big Three. Their influence on American education depends upon their determination to repel any forces that through...