Word: system
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...delivery of registered letters containing tickets for the Dartmouth and the Yale games, the same system will be used. In both cases the announcements of the receipt of the registered letters at the Post Office will be sent out early in the week in which the games are to be played...
...Bellows, in the leading article, dis- cusses clearly and cogently a subject the importance of which no one will question, "Harvard Admission Requirements." The writer aims "to point out certain things in the present system which appear to produce bad results, and to determine what subjects the College clearly ought to require for admission." Members of the Faculty, as well as undergraduates, may well read this article with attention. The Editor of the Monthly, however, in his comments on the subject, is mistaken in thinking that "the citadel of election" may already have fallen. Neither President Lowell, nor the Faculty...
...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "Sponges, and the Origin of the Nervous System." Professor G. H. Parker. Zoological Laboratory, 4th floor, Room...
...London, where he tried to live up to the scale set by the English aristocracy, and in a few years ran into debt beyond recovery. The tenant supplied all the capital while the landlord merely held the position of rent-taker and did nothing in return. Because of this system there arose an insane competition to get land. The tenant offered more than he could pay and in a few years was bankrupt and evicted. In this way the price of the land increased out of all proportion to its value, and all produce except the potato went...
West Point is unique among the higher educational institutions of the country as one in which the elective system has had little influence. In a little more than a century the Military Academy has sent out nearly five thousand graduates, trained in its strict curriculum, who have held and now hold places of trust and responsibility in official and in civil life. No college can show an equal number of alumni with better average records for public service. It is the West Point that trains men not only in engineering and in military science, but also in discipline...