Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinguished opponent." Nominee Hoover announced that he would ignore "the multitude of issues which have already been well canvassed" and discuss home "fundamental principles and ideals." He plunged into a series of generalities such as "the march of progress," "great constructive measures," and "an economic and social system, vastly more intricate and delicately adjusted than ever before" (one of his most frequent phrases). He spoke also of attempts "to inject the Government into business in competition with its citizens." And he spoke of "the American system...
...indirect, personal but shrewdly purposeful way he was making it appear that the Democratic Nominee, because of his specific proposals in connection with water power, farm relief, prohibition and the tariff, stood in general for "a European philosophy . . ., state socialism," while he, the Republican, stood for "the American system of rugged individualism . . . diametrically opposed." It was a shrewd thing to try to do in the financial capital of the U. S. But it was a difficult speech to grasp. It seemed to overshoot the mark...
...haste to join the parade of eminent critics who have aimed slings and arrows at the educational system in American universities, Dr. J. Edgar Park of Wheaton College witticised variously on the subject before an eminent gathering of teachers in Tremont Temple. "One of the greatest needs in this country today," he disclosed, at one point "is the establishment of two club colleges as near New York as possible which will help to free the regular colleges of the undesirabe materials now clogging them up.... They will offer close contact with bootleggers, lots of ash trays and easy chairs...
Both of these measures, the one of the latent powers of the student's mind and the other of the training it has had, are necessarily limited in their usefulness as indicators of his later successes. The capabilities which they reveal with more or less accuracy resemble the system by which education in presented to the student in being only the raw material with which he is to work. Combined in varying proportions as determined by the individual and the college, they mark the outside limits of his achievements. But both system and native talent together can do little unless...
...great strategists. They gained control of the Nickel Plate, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Hocking Valley and the Erie; they have gained a share (with N. Y. C. and B. & O.) in the Lake Erie & Wheeling. They have had the strategic plan of making those railroads into the fourth eastern system. N. Y. C. has helped them; the B. & O. has removed obstacles; the Pennsylvania has not interfered, overtly. Yet after four years of intricate crocheting at their orris of railroad lines, they have not yet succeeded. The transportation system that they prophesied and prayed for has not yet come true...