Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...system when coolly viewed offers untold possibilities at Harvard. If a students considers that he has been hardily dealt with by an unbending professor, he gathers his band and goes to pay the professor a call. Half an hour later he comes out with his mark raised to a substantial B. The one objection would be that the band would probably charge more than the Widow's though to be sure the effort would not cost the student such mental agony...
...possibility of a return of the dominance that the German University system held over American education until comparatively recent times has been raised by Dr. Charles F. Thwing of Western Reserve College in a book entitled "The German and American University." The German institutions have been noted particularly for their thoroughness of research work and the freedom with which the courses are conducted; and in spite of the losses suffered during the war, Dr. Thwing cites these as qualities important enough to make such a return of the German influence possible...
...solution of the problem lies perhaps in the segregation of the two groups, The scholastic elite deserve and should have the Tutorial System, the General Examinations, the Reading Period, and all that goes with them. They are the men who will ultimately take their degree with Honors, and there is no reason why they should be placed on the same plane with the men who waste their own and their tutor's time, prepare for their General Examinations at a tutoring school, neglect their Reading Period assignments and turn their backs on every attempt on the part of authorities...
...Period innovation are being taken, it is imperative to recognize the fact that only about half the undergraduate body is benefited. On all too many has the latest seed from University Hall been wasted. Then in the future only the appreciative would have the opportunities presented by the Tutorial System at their commond. While it is difficult to draw the line between the scholastic strata, the Reading Period itself has revealed that it is to some extent possible...
...universities need, is some hardy intellectual food to chew upon. Make the Union a place where men can get together and talk things over of consequential and substantial interest. That would do more for the intellectual life of Harvard than all the superficially imposed reading periods and tutorial systems in the world. Yes, a larger and more beautiful stadium would be just as desirable and welcome as a ventilating system in the basement of Widener;--but let us give some real meaning to a debating union by bringing to its forum the intellectual problems that prick the consciences...