Word: system
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recent meeting the council reorganized its system of publications. Hereafter it will issue its own journal, which will be published in bi-monthly parts. The editor-in-chief is Professor J. H. Wright and one of the two assistant editors is Professor J. R. Wheeler, Ph. D. Harvard 1885, now of Columbia. The yearly appropriation for the journal will be $5000. The institute offers annually four fellowships at the schools, each of the value of $600. The examinations for the two fellowships at the school at Athens will be held this week at Halle, Germany, Athens, Greece, Ithaca...
...club crew,- the Holworthy Club crew, three times out of the four. Clubs were organized in 1875 and the club races for a while took the places of the class races. Membership in these clubs was arbitrary, fixed byresidence in the dormitories, but the club system was short-lived because there seemed to be no good basis of interest in their existence...
This year's class races are to be the first public test of the new rowing system as applied to the various crews in the University, and will be of unusual interest for several reason. In the first place the class crews are generally believed to average faster and generally better than ever before, and are so evenly matched that the race is sure to be close and hard. Moreover, this is the first year in which there has been enough interest in rowing to support second class crews or Weld crews and there has been much attention given...
...Fools." It is a series of short sketches of the lan Maclaren type, dealing with life in a manufacturing town in the West. The one thing which makes itself almost painfully apparent throughout is the cynicism of the author. In a sarcastic manner she sneers at the existing social system, and in a covert way advances the ideas of socialism. Like much else that has been written, it treats the world as being all wrong, all employers being grinding oppressors and all poor men injured and down-trodden. The general impression left by the book is one of gloom...
...rapid firing system with three traps and known angles shall be used...