Word: systeme
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Look here, Growler, I won't hear another word about the marking-system...
...next year have already begun their labors, and this interesting work will doubtless be issued in the course of a month or two. As the time when the choice of electives for next year must be made is now only two months off, we earnestly hope that the new system of Honours and Honourable Mention will receive the earliest possible attention of the Corporation and Overseers. There are very many men in college, especially in the Junior class, who will make their choice of electives partly, if not wholly, in reference to the new system. It is very important...
...mere fact that there are between forty and fifty men now in training, besides the members of the University Crew, conclusively proves that we have not yet lost all interest in rowing, and also shows that class crews arouse a much more active competition than the old club system ever did or could. The reason for this is obvious, and, apart from the raising of our standard in rowing itself, we ought to congratulate ourselves that any scheme for reviving class feeling has been put on a substantial footing. The old club system tended to make the class feelings till...
...races being "scratch" would seem to entitle every entry to a show for a seat in the boats, and to secure this it would seem to be fairer to draw the lots from a hat, rather than have the captains choose from the list in turn. Possibly the "lot" system may have been followed generally, but in one or two cases we think...
WHEN the club system was abandoned last fall, the Executive Committee was instructed to provide some other system, and the property of the clubs was handed over to it to be used for the best advantage of boating. Since class races in eights have been arranged for, the club boats are left idle, and the Committee has ordered that several boats of each kind be put into first-rate order for the use of those who wish to go on the river, and who are not on the class crews...