Word: systeme
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...large classes as we have now to attempt individual lives of every member, and so many men see this folly and act on it, that the class-books now are very incomplete and unsatisfactory indeed; with less attempt more could be really done. With a small class the old system worked fairly well, with the classes of to-day it is effete and absurd; yet each class will knock its knees before this antediluvian shrine until the uselessness of the system has been demonstrated again and again. Really the men whose class lives would be most apt to be looked...
...cannot undertake to set forth in the columns of the Crimson the system of training and rowing which we follow this year. If published, it would fill a small volume. For such a work I am not at present prepared, and anything less, I take it, would be unsatisfactory...
...practical working, however, of a part of our system can be seen on any afternoon at the boat-house, where we are busy getting ready for the race with Yale...
...English club, painstaking and training for weeks, just as if for an important regatta or match. It is flattering on the part of Americans and other foreigners to be so anxious to measure strength with English clubs; but English clubs certainly do not appreciate the flattery. If the system goes on, there is no saying where. it will stop. German and even Japanese students will next want to try their hands, and the university boating clubs will not be able to call their vacation their own. If Oxford should choose to accept such challenges, the public will be glad...
...whole, then, the fair deduction from the returns of last year, whether they are examined with respect to average results, or with an inquiry into individual cases, appears to me to be the same which was drawn by my predecessor from the first year's trial of the system of voluntary attendance, - that the influence of the system on the general scholarship of the class, so far as it is exhibited by the marks given by instructors, is imperceptible, either for good or evil. And without laying too much stress upon the fact that in the lower part...