Word: systeme
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that, although I have no wish to enter upon a prolonged discussion, I feel that I am justified in saying a few words in my defence. With my opponent's premises I agree. In saying that Class Day ought to commemorate class traditions, he is unquestionably right. The present system of instruction, however, has rendered our own class traditions radically different from those of our predecessors. The Harvard class of a dozen years ago was a very different thing from the Harvard class of to-day. Brought together daily by a four-years' course of required studies, the eighty...
...present day the two hundred students who enter with each class are thrown together only in chapel. After the first year in college, the elective system so completely separates classmates, and so completely breaks down all class distinctions, that, except in societies and at prayers, classes can hardly be said to retain any individual existence. Instead of his classmates, the student meets in the recitation-room his fellow-students. Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors whose tastes coincide are constantly found side by side in the same elective, while classmates whose inclinations differ do not meet twenty times in their whole course...
...casually met in recitations or elsewhere, but he will forget the existence of numbers whose paths have deviated from his own. If he is not a member of a society, his class associations will be nothing more than reminiscences of a limited circle of personal friends. The elective system, in fact, has destroyed the sentiment of class feeling which was so strong at Harvard during the last generation. Our own class traditions can hardly be distinguished from our society memories; and it seems to me that my former arguments for nomination by societies will stand the test of class tradition...
...Stuffed Club" system, and in a less degree, in the method of nomination pursued last year, many men found their representatives chosen for them without regard to their consent. By a curious contradiction in terms, however, the officers elected were called Class-Day officers, and assumed to represent the class. As long as Class Day is to be an occasion commemorative of class traditions and associations, no stretch of the imagination can make it other than a "snatch and have" proceeding for any section of a class - even "a limited body of men of fashion" to arrogate to itself...
...waiters, it has been conclusively demonstrated that the number now employed is fully as large as is consistent with an unconfused and orderly system of service; there are brief or no delays in serving the different courses in their proper times, and whatever exceptional delays have been caused in the past were due to defective dummy or other kitchen arrangements for sending up the food into the hall, and not to a lack of waiters. The result, then, of the Directors' investigation is, a general commendation of the management of the Dining-Hall, and the fair interpretation of the figures...