Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great social changes of the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to profound political transformations. The industrial revolution radically upset the economic system and established industrial and commercial capital side by side with wealth in land. This in turn involved the decline of the old feudal aristocracy and the rise of a middle class. It was but natural that this natural class, as it became influential should desire some voice in the affairs of government. In time it evolved a political theory known as liberalism and based on the principles of individualism, liberty and free competition. In the countries...
...really little danger, particularly because administration officials, it is said, hope to obtain enumerators of "a very high standard of intelligence," such as members of women's clubs, who will volunteer for the work "as a patriotic duty." Obviously such people could be persuaded to serve only by a system of unrestricted appointment. So that whatever one may think in comparing the different reasons offered the conclusion in high circles is unanimously for high-minded patronage...
From time to time the system does lead to happy results, as in the recent appointment of Mr. Gow as Postmaster of Boston. Perhaps the next four years of Republican rule may even bring a new post-office building to replace that antiquated structure whose granite is still chipped by water that fell on it during the great fire of 1872. And in this matter of repaying loyal party workers, no gentleman in public life, however aggrieved by elections or other petty matters, would demean himself by similarly dampening the Roman candles of this Republican triumph...
...mines of information concerning all portions of the sky, mines which have been only partially worked, and which still have rich veins awaiting the explorer. For instance a search is being made on Harvard plates for other galaxies than ours. These galaxies, far away from our own Milky Way system, are frequently of spiral shape, and can be readily detected by the careful observer. On photographs taken at Arequipa twenty-five years ago with the Bruce telescope, Miss Ames has found two thousand new galaxies...
...elective system is a Jeffersonian principle, but there are salutary limitations. One of the chief pleasures of college dons is to concoct examination papers. They are the last persons to refuse such tests. This aloofness, this excessive individualism, is confined, there is good ground for hoping, to the malignants of the Charles.... Tabulation will reveal the clothes philosophy of our young barbarians, the outward expression of their minds. Doubtless undergraduates of the college now proving itself so unworthy of them will rebuke its want of comity, its rebellion against one of the noblest forms of sociological effort and the spirit...