Word: systeme
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...known that a change has been suggested in our club system, and that a canvass is now being carried on to ascertain what probability of success it may have. A full and explicit statement of the matter may not, however, be superfluous...
There are, however, two slight features in the present system of government which are still in need of improvement. It seems to be an unwritten law that no one outside of the State or almost outside the immediate vicinity of Cambridge can be on the Board of Overseers. The College has a large number of prominent graduates who live outside this State, and there is no reason, now that communication is so easy, why a graduate living in New York or even farther off than New York should not serve on the board. In the President's Report...
...upon their result to base his mark and relative standing in his class. To get a good mark, to stand well in his class, is the desire of every good student, and everything should be done by the College authorities to give him legitimate assistance. But does the present system of examinations give the student a fair chance? I think not, for the following reasons. I defy any man, - always leaving out the exceptional genius who is sui generis and therefore outside of all logical argument, - be he ever so faithful a student, to go into an examination...
...students, then, the present system is disadvantageous; to those whose examinations chance to come unfavorably - for it is all a matter of chance, and the class subject to the caprice of Fortune is a numerous one - it is grossly unfair, while to the most fortunate the limited time does not give fit opportunity for preparation. I therefore think the object of the examinations is not attained, since they do not afford the test desired...
...wish to call attention to the true state of the club system of boating and to the real causes for that lack of interest which threatens to prove fatal. We believe that the trouble does not lie with the system itself, which was founded, after careful study, by men experienced in college boating and which, by the success of its first year, proved its excellence as a system. During that year good crews were carefully got together and good races rowed, and it was shown that, under these circumstances, enough rivalry existed to render the races amply interesting...