Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...administration of John W. "God can do it" Lyons, Mayor of Cambridge as well as its governmental antithesis, the city manager scheme under Plan E, will be tested before the Massachusetts courts in the next few weeks...
...President turned again to business, finance and industry for help in the defense crisis, as the defense program became not just one new bureau but the whole Washington operation, the mutually distrustful Janizariat found a new unity, began to scheme how to regain their lost control...
However, many of the disadvantages which prompted President Conant to abandon the old Lowellian requirement linger about this new scheme. Neither the large survey courses nor the more advanced specialized courses can convey to a concentrator in a different field the "academic discipline" of any given area. There will almost certainly be a rush, as there was in the 'twenties and 'thirties, into the notorious snaps in any of the given areas. Passing one of these unscientific sciences or "cultural" language courses will not contribute an iota toward the liberal education that is the ultimate aim of distribution. The only...
...reduction of existing salaries would: (a) affect departments unequally and arbitrarily; (b) seriously injure the tutorial system; and (c) result in the firing (or rather not rehiring) of a large number of valuable teaching fellows--whereas this might be avoided by reducing Faculty salaries on a progressive income tax scheme...
...This scheme would locate all dormitories well away from the noise of Massachusetts Avenue. Offices and classrooms would be far enough within the Yard so as to eliminate most of the noise from the street. In addition, this plan was calculated to make order out of the present hodge-podge of dormitories, classrooms and administrative offices which are now promiscuously scattered about the Yard...