Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Altogether it is a rare tribute to American education and the fundamental soundness of its system that this first year after the war finds it in such a genuinely healthy condition...
...plan of continuing rowing throughout the winter was originally devised for the Freshmen to satisfy their physical exercise requirements, but the new system has proved so popular among the upperclassmen that it has been enlarged to include all men who want the instruction. Many members of last year's Freshmen and University crews have been reporting regularly, and the interest shown in the present system will probably mean its permanent establishment here...
Although this reduction in the number of players would largely do away with the system of team play that has been fostered by Alfred Winsor '02, it would add much to the chances for individual brilliancy. In Canada the six-man game has been adopted by almost all of the leading teams, and this will undoubtedly have its influence on the proposed change here...
Since the establishment of the system, practically no effort has been made to decrease the amount of required class work, the number of weekly tests, or routine labor. The work of individual investigation and reading with the tutor, which is the very aim of the system, has suffered, and has necessarily shrunk to an almost negligible amount...
There are but two ways to satisfactorily meet this situation: the faculty must either give up the idea entirely and return to the high school theory of nothing but assigned lessons, or it must put the tutorial system on a sounder basis. To make it successful would mean a diminution in the required classroom routine and a decrease in the number of tests to compensate for the added individual work. Such a change would increase both the opportunity and responsibility of the student. Certain men would no doubt waste extra time given them; they are the same men who absorb...