Word: system
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year, however, Yardlings voted against class elections after several years of agitation against a system of voting for officers when no Freshman could know more than one out of five of his 1000 classmates. Elections were voted down in a referendum by a 432 to 179 margin and the Union Committee stayed in office for the rest of the year...
...successful history of Oxford and Cambridge colleges shows how much of an educational factor the "collegiate way of life" may be. If all the students in Harvard College were pursuing the same course of study (which was essentially the case before the advent of the elective system) or were all interested in the same general field of knowledge (as is the case in a technical school), then many if not all of the educational values inherent to the House Plan would be lost. Fortunately, in each House there is a representative proportion of concentrators in all the different fields. This...
...even less cheery, Dick Harlow was absent from spring practice for three weeks due to illness, and the spring session was further retarded by inclement weather. With an ambitious schedule, it loks tough for the 1939 Varsity. But statistics on paper don't convey the whole story . . . the Harlow system and a determined group of Jayvees and Yardlings should combine to give the Crimson a late-starting but winning football team...
...Harlow system and a fleet set of backs will give Harvard an unbeatable attack, If given some measure of support by the line. Blocking is an obvious weakness of this year's backfield . . . its inexperienced line is an unknown quantity...
...heckling Nazi radio system, the thought of Britishers being debagged by impolite little Japanese sentries in China has been a constant delight. So an an-schlussed Vienna station this month concocted a morsel of doggerel, in English, commemorating the situation in a vaudeville program relayed by all the other stations in Ostmark. The doggerel...