Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...voting booth for the election of the 1921 class officers and the representative to the Student Council will be open today in the Standish Hall Common Room from 9 until 6 o'clock. The system of preferential voting and the Australian ballot will be used in the elections, as set forth in Article 3, Sections 7 and 8, of the class constitution. All men who entered College with the class of 1921 and who have not voted with another class, will be eligible to cast their ballots today...
...half of the college year of 1916-17, and went to France, where he lectured as Exchange Professor at the Sorbonne in Paris. After about six months in this post, Professor Sabine entered the service of the French and British Governments for the special purpose of experimenting with a system whereby the range might be found for artillery by the use of a method of sound triangulation. During his experiments he was at the front a great deal of the time and in connection with his work on artillery liaison had an unusual opportunity to observe the aviation branch...
...army is a citizen army. It is composed of our brothers, our cousins and our sons. Nothing like it has been seen in America even in the days of '61, for at that time the volunteer system alone determined the service. The American Army in France is ourselves in khaki. All classes are represented. It is entirely democratic in its personnel and in its spirit. It is an army to be proud of and to be cared for. It is far from home and it will not be strange if many of the boys become homesick-especially if the winter...
...present policy of meeting only cantonment and school teams. The question of intercollegiate games has not, until recently, received the support of the authorities of Yale, Princeton and the University, but in view of the need of a more general participation in athletics by undergraduates than resulted under the system in force throughout the first half of the college year, they have changed their attitude. The general opinion at the other two universities is now in favor of a renewal of the old type of competition on a less pretentious scale than formerly...
...been found that some sort of organization is necessary to the successful maintenance of athletics. The informal system has not worked well, because it assumed an equality between fundamentally different teams. Such an equality was worthless because of its very artificiality. The one indispensable feature of college athletics seems to be the playing of intercollegiate games, for only in that way will teams of real equality meet...