Word: systeme
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Nassau Literature of Princeton contains an article strongly recommending the institution of a system of Intercollegiate literary contests something similar to that suggested last year in Scribner's by Mr. T. W. Higginson. It is stated as the firm belief of the writer that Intercollegiate rivalry should extend to a contest of brains as well as muscle, and this belief is stated to be based upon the following reasons...
...basket, which he does with a sigh of regret that talent should be so misapplied, at the expense of his columns, so hungry for copy. The most favorite subject seems to be "Popular Men"; and these rather indefinite creatures are made the objects of sarcasm and raillery, and the system of society elections and class politics meets with vehement abuse. Writing on such matters is absurd. We know, all of us, that our "systems," like all others, have their faults; we know, too, that to attempt to revolutionize them would be ridiculous. As matters stand at present, classes...
...increase and swell beyond proportion, and with these neither "fate" nor "misfortune" has had anything to do. The records of the past week have made known a heavy embezzlement by the cashier of the Treasury Department of the State of New York, amounting to $ 300,000, developing a system of fraud almost unparaleled. Within the past year defalcation after defalcation has come to light both in cities and in country towns, - Boston, Brooklyn, New York, Lowell, Hingham, to say nothing of similar cases in our Western and Southwestern States, has proved how unworthy of trust have been those persons...
...this course did so with the expectation of pursuing it with a small division, and of enjoying the greater amount of personal intercourse with the instructor which results. With any this advantage is one of large influence. Is it not, in fact, one of the faults in our present system, that in those studies which are most necessary to even a respectable education, while most agreeable to the tastes of the average student, the members of a division are so numerous that it is impossible for any individual to receive more than the most meagre immediate attention from the instructor...
...word as to the way in which the room is conducted. We think we can appreciate to some extent what the tribulations of a curator must be; but it really seems as if a little more system might be shown with the newspapers and magazines; and it certainly cannot improve the standing of the Reading-Room with the authorities to have the gas burn till various points of time between 10 P. M. and midnight, then to be extinguished by a private individual, while the door remains unfastened through the night...