Word: system
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wish to draw attention to a topic treated at some length in the editorial of the last Monthly. An appeal is there made for a better system of arrangement of new buildings as they are presented from time to time. The special occasion for the appeal is the selection of a location for the Brooks House, which is to be placed in the corner between Stoughton and Holden Chapel. Another selection of a site has recently been made. Randall Hall, the new eating-house which is to accommodate 600 men, is to be placed on Kirkland St., east of Memorial...
...most important suggestion which the President makes is that of having two occasions during the year, instead of one for the conferring of degrees. He does not appear as a partisan of such a change, but notes those tendencies of the Harvard system which would make it appear a consistent development. Formerly, a specified length of residence was the most important qualification for the degree; now it is the passing of examinations on a definite number of courses or half-courses. Provided that the curriculum is so arranged as to allow considerable freedom of choice among half-courses...
...ambition or enthusiasm for debate is strong, and further inducement is unnecessary. It would be of unquestionable advantage, however, to find some means of making the debates attractive enough to insure the attendance of those whose support is but luke-warm. One of the most discouraging features of the system as it now exists, is the difficulty of obtaining an audience...
...affair, which, when the worst has been granted, is nothing but a "Freshman trick." When a newspaper in all solemnity declares that "the cheek of every true Harvard man should blush for shame" for such an occurrence, and that such conduct threatens the very existence of the lecture system of instruction, the affair becomes more comic than its perpetrators could possibly have hoped. When we are grave they call us stiff-necked and blase; when we come down to a perfectly harmless piece of folly they magnify it to an outrage and still call us children. Considering the character...
...Every where the growth of Christianity has been a steady progress toward freedom. The essential beauty of civilization is charity. Freedom is the essential thing of civilization. Now freedom has brought no more substantial result than the substitution of free labor for slave. Nevertheless the industrial system based upon freedom contains within itself elements which threaten its existence. The adjustment of the demands of the free laborer is the chief problem of humanity today and the Pope's Encyclical, points the solution...