Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sports are still divided into three definite classes. No man is slighted, yet each receives his just award. Dartmouth seems to have made a wise move in following the lead of Illinois in abolishing the major--minor classification and yet retaining much of the value of the old system...
After the several candidates have been designated and speeches made on their behalf, the party candidate will be chosen by the unit system, each state controlling one vote. The chairmen of the various state delegations, chosen by the men from the separate states who have expressed interest in the forthcoming convention, will assemble to arrange final details for the meeting, Friday evening at the Union...
...Perhaps it is true, as Dean Hanford says, that no other large university could have made such a success at the present time, because no other has the foundation that has been laid at Harvard by the tutorial system. There are, however, many other plans of similar intent now in operation in various places. Meiklejohn has at Wisconsin a college where there is no classroom teaching, and the emphasis is on joint research. Rollins College has set its students free from all formal routine for an experimental term of six months. Honor students at Swarthmore and elsewhere take no "courses...
...completely deprived of tutorial guidance. The possibilities for research and creative work in the time thus made available to the tutor are without doubt great, and honor would be presumed, on the basis of past accomplishment, to be won during them for the University. But if the tutorial system is to continue serving alike the dropped Freshman and the first group Sophomore, it seems clear that it should not abandon the academically lesser of these, nor the many who have by varying margins escaped his fate, in their time of most need...
Last week Leonor Fresnel Loree was 70 years old and last week he sold his threat of a fifth Eastern railroad system for $63,000,000 and the assurance that his Delaware & Hudson would not be obliterated by the New York Central, the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore & Ohio or the Van Sweringen group...