Word: systeme
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...thought in the spring of 1874 that the interest in boating would receive a lasting stimulus by the inauguration of the new Club System now in operation; but experience has shown that the enthusiasm so strongly awakened at the outset has steadily decreased, until the condition of the crews is now deplorable. But want of interest has not been the sole cause of this, for, since the revival of athletics here, it has been decisively shown that to hope for success one must apply himself to but one kind of sport. This of course is the only correct principle...
...Club Crews, thus deprived of many of their best men, find it hard to keep afloat, and for want of material rather than pluck, do much less real work than formerly. Still the general effect of the new system is very beneficial, for by affording more opportunities for rowing than the old one, it keeps more crews on the river and is therefore likely to develop a larger number of good oarsmen...
...Bursar, without regard to the manner in which she treats those for whose service she is employed. There is no reason why she should do her work as long as she is paid for not doing it. The fault lies not so much in the goody as in the system...
...reader has had the patience to follow me so far, I will recommend to the suffering public in general, and to the Bursar in particular, a new system by which the work of the goody may be rendered efficient, and our rooms assume an appearance of cleanliness...
...this system every goody employed would know that her wages depended on the efficiency of her labor, and she would then attempt to do something besides breaking mantel-ornaments and putting ashes on the floor, which at present are about the only traces which she leaves of her presence in a room...