Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more game, with the Crescent City Club of New York has been added to the University schedule as previously announced in the CRIMSON. The southern trip which is usually made during the spring vacation will not be made this year because of the three term system...
...maintain a curriculum in harmony with the times requires constant attention to changing conditions. Obviously no system is permanently good. Something corresponding to a standard has been established by the universities and colleges, but a departure from this "standard" should not be condemned because it is a departure. When, for instance, some institution, as Yale, makes a change in her system, as she did by abolishing a four-year Latin training for entrance, the only telling argument which can be brought against it is to show that the plan is out of harmony with the times...
...value of freedom as the great educator of man has always been one of President Eliot's beliefs. For this reason, he introduced the free elective system to allow every student to choose the subjects for which he felt a natural inclination. He realized that no work could be done happily and well which did not really interest the worker...
...reforms which he introduced were not only revolutionary in their character as regards the College, but they were also revolutionary in the general field of education at that time. The development of the elective system gradually displaced an almost completely prescribed curriculum. And the three year course for the A. B. degree was introduced at his direction to shorten the college period for those who found the preparation for professional schools too long. That these radical changes were timely is conclusively shown by statistics, for in 1869, the year in which he became President, a total of two hundred...
There is a possibility that Cornell Dartmouth, Pennsylvania and perhaps Columbia, may enter into a closer athletic combine. Though these colleges have had athletic contests once or officer each year, it is planned to parallel the system of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton's by meeting thus annually in as many sports as possible...