Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...member of American educational institutions, both undergraduates and faculty, would do well to read. Mr. Hack has attempted to bring peace to the continually warring Modernist and Humanist parties, but not in any weak, timid spirit--he does not tell these men to stop fighting because the present educational system is correct. Far from it! But Mr. Hack does print out that the only thunder the Modernist has is that the Humanist is all wrong, while the continuous cry of the Humanist is that the Humanist is all wrong, while the continuous cry of the Humanist is that the Modernists...
...Hack is not in sympathy with the present education system. "Education has during the last century become more and more a drill to produce power; but we must make of it a path to freedom and self-control." "The weak point is that we have relied upon instruction to produce educated men." Particularly are American universities and lower schools scored. Mr. Hack has not been yellow in giving his opinions. In spite of his severe charges, however, he is hopeful. "Freedom and self-control must be won by each man for himself;. . . . . hereafter the chief emphasis will be placed upon...
...Athletic Committees of Harvard, Yale and Princeton to discuss the policy for this spring promises to be an interesting event for undergraduates. Last fall, with all the natural leaders of athletics in war service, it was felt that any attempt at usual organization would be farcical, and the informal system was inaugurated. Contrary to expectations; there was more than a small amount of interest in athletics left at the colleges. In football the informal system worked tolerably well, but everyone realized that something fundamental was lacking. There was no demand for the old style of spectacles with huge crowds...
This does not mean we have to rush back to the old system with its numerous faults. We do not need to have coaches drawing enormous salaries, nor advertising campaigns to attract crowds of thousands. We simply desire to play in a contest with teams which are like our own. Baseball and possibly track could be dragged out along informal lines, but to try to have an informal crew would be the heighth of absurdity. Two facts argue strongly for intercollegiate games. The first is that the President of the United States and the leading men of the War Department...
...spotlight now rests quite naturally on Yale and Harvard, among the larger institutions the only remaining advocates of the "informal system," alone opposed to big games at this time. Will there now be a new expression from those two institutions of their views on the matter? Athletics of the stamp advocated by Secretaries Daniels and Baker and by the Intercollegiate Athletic Association do not call for a return to the glamor and expense of the old regime. Briefly they advocate a system somewhat similar to that in use at West Point, minimized running expenses, little practice and a team that...