Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course of his speech mention was made of the progress in electrification made by the railroad. The lines between Philadelphia and New York are to be entirely electrified at a cost of over $100,000,000. The change from the present system to that of electrification will require six or seven years, for its completion. In carrying out this plan the railroad is looking forward to the time when the problem of providing transportation facilities will be an entirely different matter than it is at present. The electrified system will be adequate to supply New York City with transportation facilities...
...Freshman class in boarding houses about town should by now have about run its course. There is the need also of more comfortable dining rooms for everyone which could be supplied by their installation in any dormitories that Yale may build in the future. The establishment of the House system at Yale in the form of small quadrangles will in this respect come into violent conflict with the present social system, for the Fraternities as they now stand are, if nothing else, eating clubs. In this matter, therefore, there would have to be a definite, although difficult compromise...
...extinct. There would be the hope that in centering men from all three of the upper classes of the College in small quadrangles truly organic groups might result which could be called unified. There should be the sense of comradeship which used to be inherent in the old class system, before they became too large. By throwing together men of widely varying mental equipment and cultural interests there might be a general stimulation of the educational idea, the idea that the University is an institution of learning rather than "A finishing school for young men." Ideally, there should...
...mass of the College. It is a question of whether or not the experiments are socially practicable. The habit of becoming segregated into small groups such as the present fraternities has become so ingrained in the make-up of the undergraduates of today that the transplantation of the English system, that of separate colleges housing men picked from all three classes at random, seems more or less a vague dream. --Yale News...
...traditions of the country. This was even more true of other countries, which were far less prepared for the liberal regime than France. The force of example was so strong, however, that in almost all countries of Europe the power of the absolute monarchy was broken and constitutional systems were instituted before 1914. Two of the most notable examples were Russia and Turkey. It is quite conceivable that under normal circumstances the new systems might have evolved satisfactorily in time, as the country in question developed economically and socially. But the world war proved too great a strain. Even...