Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...original equipment of a single "very fair and comely edifice" was a sort of boarding school with "a larger library with some books in it." The books were of course mostly theological. Today there are among other departments a great system of chemical laboratories a beautiful and elaborately devised medical school around which hospitals cluster observatories in Cambridge and South America and Arizona a branch school of medicine in China a main library with millions of books charts manuscripts; there are museums of a dozen specializations in short Harvard has become a great storehouse of our knowledge...
There has been an increasing amount of discussion in recent years of the pros and cons of certain features of the present system of General Examination in History Government and Economics. Men concentrating in this division take three three hour examinations at the end of the Senior year; one covering the department of History, Government or Economics as the case may be one on a special field with in the department and a so called "general" examination on the two related departments in which the student is not concentrating...
...grind of going over the details of elementary courses would give way to more profitable and interesting study. Some sort of move in this direction would be in keeping with the noteworthy place which the Division of History Government and Economics has held in the progress of the Tutorial System...
During the four years of Coach Horween's regime; Harvard elevens have been definitely committed to offensive football. The new system got under way slowly and has had its ups and downs which have brought showers of criticism on Coach Horween. The season just ended however; seems to have shown pretty conclusively that the Crimson is on the right track and another fall with the same coach in charge should find a definitely established system travelling along at top speed. Without doubt Coach Horween's decision must have been influenced by the wealth of more than promising material which will...
...urged American educators to make the drastic changes demanded by their own needs instead of turning to England for inspiration and talent. The English system under which the college authorities act independently could not be reconciled with the ownership and management of American universities by a board of trustees. --The Boston Herald...