Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...perfection of the indexing system now in use at the directory office, Mr. Mead hopes to have the list more than 90 per cent. correct when it is issued. During the three months intervening between sending out the proof sheets and going to press changes took place at the rate of more than 2,000 a month, and it is expected that in spite of the most painstaking work more than three thousand addresses will be out of date when the directory is issued. The difficulty is increased by the fact that 1,551 men are now carried...
...however, has expressed every confidence in Mr. Fisher's abilities as next year's coach, and the seven "H" men who have worked under him before are ready to swear by him. Moreover, Coach Fisher himself has declared his fixed intention of continuing, in essentials at least, the Haughton System. The prospects for a successful fall season have become much brighter through Mr. Fisher's appointment...
...current annual report, President Meiklejohn of Amherst College makes some interesting suggestions as to the desirability of general examinations for undergraduates. One great shortcoming of the American educational system, as most educators now admit, is the practice of awarding degrees on the basis of examinations in individual courses. Each branch of the curriculum thus becomes a sort of watertight compartment and the student too often fails to perceive its relation to any other branch. Harvard, some years ago, set out to correct this situation so far as her own students are concerned by establishing a general examination in connection with...
...system of Senior advisers, then, undoubtedly fills a need which otherwise cannot be met. It is the duty of the Senior to make the incoming man feel that he has a friend in the University with whom he can talk over the perplexing incidents of the new life to which he is becoming accustomed. The experience of the upperclassman is sure to prove invaluable in gulling the uninitiated toward a wise course in studies and other college activities...
...Senior is sufficiently in advance of his advisee to command respect for the counsel which he offers, yet the difference is not so great as to defeat the aim of the system -- to provide a man in the University who will aid the Freshman in all times of need. If conscientiously carried out, this system will become the means of personal contact between the College, and its newest members, and will prevent the feeling that the are allowed by the University to sink or swim as they...