Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Donham's more basic attack against the system of requiring resignation rather than rejoining is easily met. Until 1923 the system he advocates was operative. Because so few men failed to rejoin and because of the high clerical expenses invoiced, this system was abandoned and that used by all private clubs adopted. Notice of the need of resigning has been given in the opening bulletin at the registration points and the CRIMSON. Sincerely yours, W. S. Stone, Secretary to the Governing Board...
...mere chirographic methods fail to be sufficiently drastic, the institution of a demerit system would seem in accordance with the plan thus far so nobly advanced. Boys with a hundred demerits would not be allowed to sing in the Jubilee, or worse still, would not be allowed to bring the girl who wrote that mushy daily letter. Any boys naughty enough to have two hundred demerits in the bug head proctors book would have to stand with a committee of proctors all the time the class picture was being taken and never have, the fun of throwing eggs...
Glad-hand tactics have carried Roy Young far. At 18 he was a messenger boy in the Marquette (Mich.) bank. At 37 he was head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, the youngest governor in the system. Every U. S. banking tycoon knows and likes his pleasant, florid face, his easy, vigorous anecdotes. He is now 46, a satisfied, successful Scotchman...
...There are 12 banks in the system. Most important, for psychological reasons, is the New York unit. But its governor, Benjamin Strong, was neither speaker nor delegate in Philadelphia. He lay seriously ill in a Manhattan hospital after an operation for an intestinal ulcer...
...believe in the merit system of the civil service and I believe further thatat appointive offices must be filled by those who deserve the confidence and respect of the communities they serve." (This was taken to refer to Negro postmasters...