Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past is of moral value; he welcomes foreign, and sometimes startling, innovations not as radical points of departure but as aids to progress. Every one of the matters which he has so ably and so sanely treated is the result of a narrow and one-sided educational scheme, having as its aim the compression of the individual into a conventional form and not, as is the new endeavor, into a spirit calculated to be both true to himself and the world in which he lives...
...when Mr. Suzzallo of the Labor Industries Board urged that Mr. Hartley, then a potent lumberman, should put his burly lumberjacks on an eight-hour day. The two men did not become any better friends when Mr. Hartley became Governor in 1925 and smashed into Mr. Suzzallo's scheme for a bigger, better and more expensive state education program...
...with torches clubs, or whatever came to hand. Mounted police were sent for, and because of their elevated seats were able to wreak able to wrealy crest havoc among the students. Finally some torch beneath one of the horses, who reared and threw his rider. Other took up the scheme, and the cavalry was routed in great confusion. But the reserves arrived, and the students fled...
...convention voted systematic relief to the Passaic strikers, but failed to produce any scheme for prompt settlement...
...CRIMSON cannot outline definitely a complete scheme by which the graduate students shall drop his shackles of tiles and trays, the undergraduate lose his Grecian fetters, and the faculty member forget forever the mawdln messes of the Colonial Club. That is even too difficult for an undergraduate newspaper. It can however state with all sincerity that conditions here are far from what they should be both in food and the price of food. Furthermore, it can suggest that somewhere near the Yard pleasant rooms, fed from some central kitchen could serve meals planned by capable dieticians, perhaps of the feminine...