Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Frank Aydelotte '03, American Secretary to the Rhodes Scholarships Trustees, announced yesterday that seven members of the University had been appointed as Rhodes scholars for the forth-coming year. In an interview he explained the new system by which the Rhodes scholars will hereafter be chosen and gave a brief history of the scholarships since their establishment in this country...
...also been announced that all Freshmen who have been rowing under the compulsory physical training system, and who are now having a two weeks' rest, must report at the office of the Physical Director in Weld 3 before Saturday to be assigned to regular physical training sections...
...result of the song trials commenced last Friday and now completed, a total of 64 men has been retained by the University Glee Club for the coming season. These trials, the hardest ever held, were conducted under the quartet system, the whole number of competitors being divided up into quartets, all the groups being as nearly as possible equal. By this method every man was given an opportunity to sing in company with three others, and yet be judged with regard to his individual ability...
...Committee on Military Science and Tactica has made a report to the Board of Overseers finally recommending: "That the University further by its example and inspiration the establishment of a system of universal service throughout the nation...
...frankly, what reason is there for anyone to become indignant at this lack of interest? Under the present system of choosing officers it is inevitable. The candidates stand for no platform, there are no conflicting issues, so that the prospective voter is not able to choose an officer because of what he represents. Nor may he be guided by some one man's special fitness for the office, because almost any man would be able to discharge suitably the not onerous duties of a class officer. So the whole matter becomes one of friendship. Only a man's personal friends...