Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...System. This week French voters will thankfully resume the simple system of balloting which sufficed them before the War. In the 1924 election they were mystified by the so-called scrutin de liste, a well meant but inexplicable procedure which was supposed to ensure by mathematical proportioning a greater representation of minority groups in Parliament...
...food distributers are developing an aggressive defense against the expansion of chain store business. Such tactics may indeed stir food chains to merge. At present they number about 800 (with 60,000 stores competing with about 300,000 independent retail stores). Hitherto chain stores have been highly individualistic, each system spreading out like strawberry vines from a parent plant. Nor have they, except for the Kroger grocery stores and the J. C. Penney dry goods stores, done much to soften public opinion excited against them by the neighborhood store keepers. Kroger's and Penney's this year have...
...Student Advisory Committee for next ear was announced last night by w. g. Saltonstall '28, president of the Student Council, Although definite plans for next year's Student Advisory work have not yet been formulated, it is understood that radical changes will be made in the present system...
Yielding none of its peculiar educational features, St., Stephen's, an Episcopal college for men, became yesterday a part of Columbia University. St. Stephen's College has not only been one of the first to introduce the English in tutorial system in America, but it has realized the tenets of progressive educationalists by allowing its students complete intellectual freedom. Only men of exceptional ability are admitted, and those who do not prove qualified are dropped at the end of the second year. For most of the Juniors and Seniors there are no classes, but individual work with tutors...
...significant step in the evolution of the organization of higher education". But if most innovations have borne this tag, such a union must be admitted as the really hopeful direction for the dreaded mass education to take. Business developments have sufficiently demonstrated the advantages of the branch system. It universities can have the strong trunk of efficient administration and authoritative lecturers, and still diversity their branches with unit colleges of different types, such as Yale promises and Columbia provides, the fear of Ford factory scholasticism may well be forgotten...