Word: system
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...development of the elective system at Harvard is one of the chief glories of the University, but it has brought some evils in its train which are fast ceasing to be of minor importance. The chief of these is experienced every fall whom the undergraduates attempt to choose their courses for the ensuing year. The difficulty of selecting four desirable courses which do not conflict is a most serious...
...take courses in the evening if they can get them in no other way. Those who are not earnest students are certainly not worthy of consideration. Harvard men should demand as their right the opportunity now only nominally afforded them, of pursuing unhampered an individual, connected, and consecutive system of work during their four years at college...
When Lord Delaware, the newly appointed governor, arrived in 1610, he found affairs in a wretched condition, due to three causes: The lack of a strong government: the communistic system; and the general bad character of the people. Improvement began at once, although it was necessarily slow. To provide the much-needed food Somers went with Argall to Bermuda. Somers himself died and his crew, disobeying his orders to return to Virginia, set sail for England. Argall, however, procured food from the Indians on the Potomac. In March, 1611, Delaware sailed for England, leaving George Percy in charge of affairs...
...played either in the Princeton or the Pennsylvania game received sweaters with H's. The men who received them are as follows: Cabot, A. Brewer, Lewis, Swain, Bouve, F. Shaw, J. E. N. Shaw, Doucette, Lee, Moulton, Beale, Wrightington, Dunlop, Sullivan, Cozzens, Brown, Dibblee, Haughton, Wheeler, Livermore. This system is the one which was adopted by the Athletic Committee last spring...
Many other ideas about the Harvard system of training have been held and many comments made. The often heard suggestion that the dampness and fogs arising from the marshes near the field had a bad effect on the players' health and strength should be carefully considered and its truth or groundlessness determined. If the present location of the Athletic Field is to have a bad effect on the athletic teams, it should be changed at once and at any cost for a more healthful spot...