Word: system
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Tonight at 7.30, in Sever 11, occurs the second competitive debate for membership in the Harvard Union. The subject is: "Resolved, That the Republican party should not undertake, as part of its programme during the Fifty-fifth Congress, any extension of the protective system...
Subject: "Resolved, That the Republican Party should not undertake, as part of its programme during the 55th Congress, any extension of the Protective System...
Since 1880 when the present system of strength tests was adopted at the Hemenway Gymnasium, the standing of the ten strongest men of each year has been given out with their records. During the last two or three years this number has been increased to the fifty men securing the greatest number of points. This plan has proved itself a satisfactory one in many respects, but it is inadequate to the requirements made on the system, inasmuch as it effects only fifty out of five hundred or more...
...system of grading is now being introduced by which any man can tell exactly where he stands in his total strenth compared with any other man in College...
...past years scholarships have been distributed in a large part as financial aid to "needy and deserving students." There were awarded as much for pecuniary need as for scholastic merit. Under this system a student of high standing, who had no need of financial aid, could not, in good faith, apply for a scholarship...