Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that the Student Advisory system is still failing to accomplish all that has been hoped of it has, however, been recognized by this year's committee, and radical changes have again been suggested for its future operation...
...years ago the steadily increasing dissatisfaction with the Student Advisory system then in force resulted in a complete revision of its major features. The number of advisers was reduced to seventy-five; all the advisory force was to be picked from the Junior and Sophomore classes instead of from the Senior; and each advisee was given a group of Freshmen, who were to be the subjects of personal visits and written analyses...
Just what legitimate function is left the student adviser is not easy to say. There are, undoubtedly, however, many problems on which the Freshman would rather consult a student than a faculty adviser. For this reason alone it would be unwise in abolish entirely the present advisory system. But the system does need considerable simplification. If all the machinery of visits, reports, letters, and blanks which has proved barren of practical results were abolished, and the entire efforts of the committee devoted to providing readily available advice for Freshmen who really want it the efficacy of the system would...
...long time the number of books proved rather cumbersome for the antiquated methods of cataloguing," said Dr. Roland-Marcel to a CRIMSON reporter after his lecture in Emerson Hall last night "Many of the books in a library were practically unknown and inaccessible. An entire reorganization of the library system was necessary to make it efficient. This was begun in the Bibliotheque Nationale in 1882, when the compilation of an alphabetical slip catalogue of the 3,000,000 and more volumes in the library was started. The existence of the old system hindered this reorganization rather than helped...
...United States, however, a complete system of cataloguing was inaugurated when the number of volumes collected in libraries was comparatively small. Hence efficiency was effected early, and further progress has followed with greater ease...