Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...system of instruction includes a moving picture theatre, which shows how the world's best athletes perform; the pictures are slowed down so that every movement is clearly visible. After seeing the films the students are taken to the camp grounds, where they receive individual instruction. The system has proved its worth and is bringing excellent results, especially in the javelin, shot-putting and hurdling events...
Tonight will mark the inauguration of the new system which will be continued throughout the year. To pay the overhead costs of keeping the building open, which includes the salary of an attendant, the Department has arranged to issue coupon books, which will enable a man to play for an hour at the small cost of ten cents...
Asked as to whether he favored the system of having dormitories for all the classes, Professor Leacock replied that strongly as the dormitories impressed him, he could never support any plan that endangered the freedom of the individual. "We have seen the effect of the Prussian system of compulsion in the universities," he went on, "and we must be careful that we do not lose that freedom which has always characterized British and American university life...
...firm. The cry has always been raised to make education more practical; to make it more nearly conform to later requirements of the outside world. In no institution does this state of affairs come to pass more nearly than in a scientific professional school. The benefit of this consulting system to Technology will lie in bringing it still closer to the industrial world. The teaching staff, even more than heretofore, will know exactly what is required of newcomers in engineering branches, and can teach accordingly...
...carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. While that experiment is part of our system, I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save...