Word: system
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...steward is engaged by the president and board of directors. He receives a certain yearly salary and, in addition, a system of "head money," consisting of a bonus of ten cents a week per man, provided the price of board does not exceed $4.00 a week. Thus it is evident that it is to the steward's interest to keep the price of board at exactly $4.00. But it should further be noticed that there is a waiting list of over 600 for the hall, that the places of those who leave the hall on account of poor fare will...
Captain Cabot of the 'Varsity football team officially announced yesterday that Dr. Brooks, Mr. Lorin Deland and Captain Emmons of the '95 football eleven, have been appointed as an advisory board to manage the football team this year. It has been further decided that the system of conducting and coaching the team will be similar to that of Captain Emmons's team; that is, there will be as near as possible a staff of coaches on the field who have been thoroughly drilled in their respective positions. Already Captain Cabot has arranged for the presence of a number...
...source of much satisfaction to Harvard students. At some colleges no absences are allowed without excuse. At others a small fixed number of "cuts" is allowed which no student can exceed except for severe sickness. Other institutions have still different plans. At Yale, for instance, a "new system of cuts" has been tried in the freshman class and will probably be adopted for all classes in the future. According to this system no absence of longer than a week is allowed except for sickness or some circumstance of equal urgency. No absence at all of less than a week...
Here a plan is in force more in keeping with the Harvard idea of letting, as far as possible, each man be the controller and judge of his own action-the idea which gave rise to the elective system and brought about the abolishment of compulsory chapel. It is recognized that the mere grinding at books does not constitute an education, and that a student may have outside pursuits very desirable and necessary to the development of a broad and liberal mind. He may, as many Harvard men do, have to work to pay his way through College...
...adaptability and justice of this system that its value lies...