Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...theory the present system is ideal. Let the class by petition choose its candidates for office. Let the class officers add to this list of nominees only when it is necessary. But in practice, because, perhaps, of a persisting apathy in class affairs, the law as it stands leaves the class with the majority, or as in the case of 1920, with all, of its nominees chosen by a very...
...withhold credit from these was manifestly unfair. At the same time in awarding these degrees "honoris causa" it was also forced to recognize that many men who could and would otherwise finish their college courses would now be entitled to their A.B.'s. Herein lies the abuse of the system...
Coach Donovan expects to hold weekly handicap meets for all candidates throughout the winter. A system of points will be carried through all these meets and, after the final winter carnival, prizes will be awarded holders of high scores...
...than most European universities. Is it not right for an institution with the age and prestige of Harvard to point the way to a higher standard rather than to fall back to the admittedly inferior standard of today? Is it not our privilege to assert the fallacy of a system that prepares its scholars for college four years later and far less thoroughly than do the public schools of France...
...Sargent's article alters our whole conception of the function of the department. Compulsory training is taken for granted. Two additional courses are inserted in the requirements for a degree. Our first vague impression was that the proposed readjustment would simply undertake a saner organization of the present system, a truly equal opportunity for all in physical training, and a removal of the semi-professional spirit. Compulsory athletics we could neither regard as practical nor as advisable. Those who had seen the actual working of compulsion suggested that the opposition which the idea raised in the individual almost totally offset...