Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stock answer to criticisms of the American governmental system is that "it works." Inquiry is seldom carried to the point of how much better it might work if differently constructed, or how long it would continue to work if subjected to a strain such as European governments are frequently called upon to resist. In the June number of Harper's Harold T. Laski, English student of Political Science, both examines the practical workings of the American political mechanism and raises the question of its adaptability to the unprecedented strains which the future is liable to bring forth...
...speech at the sesqui-centennial celebration at Andover last week President Coolidge brought out one important point which is frequently overlooked in many of the perennial discussions of the American educational system. That is that the principle of education for all, not long ago the guiding star of its development in this country, is still very young as human institutions go. At the time Andover was founded there was no provision for public education beyond what the scattered high schools could provide; for the colleges were very restricted in membership and mainly intended for theological students. By offering many...
Wily though he is, the Senator occasionally errs in the way of heroes: under estimating the power of his opponent. Swifter than he knew, the underground espionage system of Rome was at work. Yesterday morning when Senator Heflin sauntered into the President's room of the Capitol, he started back, and caught the arm of the nearest reporter. The room was draped...
...peculiarly true of human nature that "the more it changes, the more it's the same thing." Men used to call upon religion to support any system that was to their advantage. They had divine revelations about the place of women in society, the privileges of kings and upper classes, and so forth. But during the nineteenth century, in the Occident, the prestige of theology waned, while that of science increased. So now all the old prejudices are being refitted with imitation "scientific" bases. Some of them can still be kept up, although they are dangerously wabbly. Some are rather...
Next morning smart folk of London's West End were scandalized to learn that the "man of substance" was indeed "no riff-raff," but instead their acquaintance or friend Sir Leo Chiozza Money, 57, one-time Parliamentary Secretary to David Lloyd George, author of the British convoy system during the World...