Word: systeme
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rooms, where he sleeps, studies, gives choice breakfasts to his friends, and wines of an evening to large parties. Englishmen coming to this country are much surprised to find that here, as a rule, two students instead of one rent a room and its accompanying bedrooms. Such a system no doubt has its pleasures. With a chum a man who is of social disposition is certain not to be left for any great length of time alone. More visitors are said to come to see two than to see one. Besides, - a most obvious advantage, - the expenses are lessened...
...friends to leave, he is never sure of a moment in which to study uninterruptedly. At Vassar they are so unmannerly as to do this; it is, in fact, rendered almost unavoidable by the huddling of five young lady chums into one study-room. To the studious, this system of chumming does more injury than the most earnest efforts of the instructors in the lecture-room can repair. Never free from interruption either by your chum or some caller, asked continually to do something foreign to the work that demands your attention, your mind at last takes on a desultory...
...well. Indeed, it is an objection that holds as well against the discussion of the question as against the pledge, that some men in defiance, and to show their contempt, rush into excesses they otherwise had never approached. It is nice because it is naughty. But to overthrow this system of pledging, it is necessary to discuss the subject, and to advocate some other remedy for intemperance...
...that you have some knowledge of the system, it would not perhaps be foreign to our purpose to say a few words about its results. It is not enough to comprehend the mechanism and organization; one must also be able to judge of the work. Having described the tree, we must also look at its fruits...
...ignorance. Besides the fact that a son a day is not a large sum to find, every year the prefect makes out a list of the indigent; that is to say, that in each village there are ten, fifteen, or twenty-five children who receive their education free. This system, it must be admitted, has several faults. These objects of charity go to school generally unwillingly, and ordinarily are neglected by the teacher. Their comrades, too, know their position, and either despise them or reproach them on account of their poverty. It is, in fact, a humiliating favor. For this...