Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book is a voluminous answer to a possible hypothetical woman who asked Mr. Shaw to "explain Socialism." From this point of departure he launches into a potpourri of Shaviana keynoted by such statements as the following: The first principle of Socialism is equal income for all. . . . Every other system for distribution of wealth is unjust and illogical. . . . The Socialist experiment failed in Russia because the people were not prepared for it. ... England is today more communist than Soviet Russia...
...Modern Language Department has been the object of much experimentation in its undergraduate work. The tutorial system was first used to its fullest extent in this field; language requirements have been adjusted along more flexible lines, and some sort of effort has been made to cut down the amount of elementary work necessary. Adapted as the courses in this field are to outside reading assignments and critical reports, the Reading Period found its most general acceptance among them, while the other group has for obvious reasons been more conservative in its adoption...
...beyond a rather superficial general idea, since only the graphic scenes can be utilized, the system does not work. For instance, if a scene from the Continental Congress is shown, how is it to portray the strifes and the animosities and the high currents on feeling that crossed each other as each representative of the thirteen different states clamored for the specific rights of his own territory? How are the great arguments pro and con the freeing of the slaves to be expressed through the medium of sight? Obviously, such qualities as sight cannot reproduce must perforce be omitted from...
Postal ballots for the election of the 1929 Student Council are being sent out this morning to all members of the Sophomore and Junior Classes. Voting will not be conducted according to the preferential system, as was previously announced. Juniors will vote for seven men out of a list of 17, and Sophomores for three from a group of 12. The membership of the council will be rounded out to its full number of 15 with the appointment of three additional members from the Junior class and two from the Class of 1930 at the first meeting...
...Gifford, on the basis of a systematic and statistical analysis of the personnel of the Boll System, has shown that success among the college graduates employed, has come in greatest measure to the men with the best college records. The relation seems to be something more than a coincidence, wherefore, if Mr. Gifford's observations among the men in one company may be taken as representative of other cases, it seems to follow that scholastic attitude is in the majority of instances the precursor of success in business...