Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gains brought by the official recognition of this virtual freedom would be primarily administrative in nature. Abandonment of all attempt to check the class attendance of men, in good standing would relieve. University Hall of a heavy clerical burden, and would also obviate the expense of the present monitorial system...
Even if the new "House plan at Harvard scrupulously disowns connections with a vaguely similar system in effect at Oxford. Cambridge has some features in common with the country which includes its more venerable name sake. The most noticeable of these is that, during the fall at least, the history of Cambridge, like that of England, is one of continual invasion. Already this year the Vagabond has seen successive onslaughts by cadets, Indians, Quakers and other forces, and here another weekend is at hand and with it he discovers that his favorite haunts have been invaded by an army...
...student relations and life at Harvard "more leisurely" and "happier" under the House plan. How greater leisure can he introduced into the life of a college without the relaxation of academic or extra-curriculum activity is difficult to see. In the expectation or greater happiness under the new system one can find little more than a blithe optimism common to all prophets of a utopian future...
...There are, indeed, already many colleges designed to suit this taste. Harvard almost alone has placed its full reliance on the undirected initiative and judgment of the individual student. Because it believes that therein has lain Harvard's unique glory, the CRIMSON joins Professor Morison in preferring the present system of robust neglect to any alternative plan of gentle guidance...
...said, "waiting amid the first mob democracy in Petrograd, waited for its splitting into minorities, and seized power at the psychological moment." Lenin stated in defense of that course of action, during an interview with Steffens, "It will be more significant in history if we try out the Marxian system than if we made a successful regime...