Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...presuming too much when I gather from the editorial that University Chapel would be abandoned under the proposed plan. This time-honored institution, attendance at which is compulsory at many American colleges, comes at 8.45 every week-day morning, as, no doubt is well known. According to the suggested scheme, it follows, therefore, that unless the chapel hour were changed--say to four o'clock in the afternoon, all men having nine o'clock classes would be prevented from attending...
...feel that the writer has overlooked much that is worthy in this scheme. It is not advocated that students go to bed late and get up early. The idea is rather to go to bed earlier and get up early. We admit that habits are a difficult thing to change, but we rather rely on the inherent rationality of man. There are 1,681 undergraduates in College. If only half of them realized that to get up an hour earlier and do good work meant getting to bed an hour earlier, this would mean the saving of 840 hours...
There is no doubt that the "gluttons for work," as aforesaid, will be found. The advantages of getting a full "Tech" course in three years or less will appeal to many boys willing to test their mettle in such a scheme. It will not only help them, but will hasten the country's needed supply of Technology trained men. --Boston Post...
...Seniors living as a group in the Yard buildings shall not be discontinued because of the war. This custom of democratic distribution of residence in the Senior year has now become firmly established and it is felt that everything should be done to insure the continuance of the scheme next year...
Under the powers granted him by the Act of 1916, however, the President was not able alone to carry out all the provisions of the scheme of Government control which he proposed; he had the power to take over the management of the roads, but he did not have the power to compensate them as he thought just, according to the average of their receipts for the years 1915, 1916 and 1917. This power was placed in the hands of Congress, to whom the President has now turned for such additional legislation as will enable him to carry through...