Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...failed, but our success this year has almost exceeded all expectations. There is cause for exultation in this alone. Yet the outcome of Saturday's games is gratifying not only from a competitive point of view, but also from the standpoint of its relation to this spring's formal system of sport...
...Cambridge without going through the tortures of these tests. It would not be possible nor right, however, for the Office to distribute credit for the year broadcast to such a large number of men without examining them as long as our scheme of education is based on the examination system. To be consistent with principle these tests, however unpleasant, are absolutely necessary...
...least, the appearance and actions of the corps at lectures and drill during the winter months has left much to be desired. Only too many men have shirked duties wherever possible. Everyone must learn and live the fact that discipline is the basis of all military training. Under a system of permanent officers the last vestige of excuse for laxity has disappeared...
...present tendency of would-be political reformers to eliminate all party feeling from coming elections is no unmixed blessing. There are partisan elements in all elections which we would have permanently discarded, but the party system itself is a source of strength in a democracy and one which should not be tossed aside lightly. If the party system is a bad thing in time of war, it is just as pernicious in time of peace. The character of candidates ought to be a consideration of importance, but it does not mean obliteration of parties. Of course, all platforms will...
...corrupt practices, of the factors which all thinking men would like to see removed from elections. The men who have the confidence of the people will be kept in office. It approaches fanaticism for oracular persons to tell the inhabitants of a nation which has thrived under a party system to disguise their feelings temporarily and admit that their whole form of government is unequal to emergencies...