Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...house. There he met and courted Lou Henry, now Mrs. Hoover. It is alleged that her sorority sisters were considerably embarrassed in a social way. Their actions and the attitude of the Stanford fraternity men toward him are responsible, undoubtedly, for his feeling of hostility toward the college fraternity system...
...Passed the House bill to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to designate as repositories of public money any State banks or trust companies belonging to the Federal Reserve System...
Cities with subways, or with plans for subways, watched New York City last week. New York has the largest subway system in the U. S. and the question was: have rides-for-a-nickel joined the jitney bus and the horse...
...system of presenting a repertory of plays, not unified in being of one type or by one author, which both these companies employ, has grown immensely in favor during recent years. Perhaps its most conspicuous devotee is the Theatre Guild of New York, with a long record of successful revivals, and presentations of important new plays. But while New York lias sat at a feast of dramatic good things, Boston has had lean fare. The Repertory Theater here is but a shade of what it might have been. Henry Jewett's company struggled valiantly but some spark of public interest...
...alumni have, in recent issues of the Alumni Bulletin, questioned the procedure of the Dean's office in handling probation. To these gentlemen Assistant Dean Nichols replies in a soothing fashion in the current number of the Bulletin. He parries the assault neatly with a general account of the system in effect, and then thrusts vigorously home with examples and statistics to show the validity of his statements; that "there is nothing arbitrary or automatic about the present method, but that, rather, it is as broad and as flexible as any system can be made...