Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twelve years after his first unsuccessful effort, he tried again and was elected governor. His two terms as State executive, which began in 1917, were marked by a systematic reorganization of the State government. The changes which he introduced included the establishment of the budget system, the reorganization of 108 overlapping bureaus into nine permanent departments, the planning of public works on a State-wide basis and similar reforms...
Under the old system, Harvard, playing an eight-game season, had three dates, most of them early in the season, which were not regularly assigned. These, it would seem, allowed sufficient scope for the gaining of all the advantages offered under the rotating plan, except that late season games with redoubted foes were difficult to arrange. Still, nowadays, with a tendency to eliminate the "soft spots" from the gridiron campaign, the order in which the Crimson takes on its opponents is of less importance...
...CRIMSON cannot see that the rotating policy will add benefits in excess of its disadvantages to Harvard football. Admitting that it may be desirable to have some flexibility in the Harvard schedule, it would seem that the three or four dates supplied under the old system are sufficient...
...Honor System, which has lately been the pivot of a small tempest at Yale, is now on the lap of the gods. The Student Council is weary of thanklessly juggling the university's morals and has sought deliverance from its travails. The Faculty shows no enthusiasm for a return to Faculty supervision in the sense of watching for cribbers, but will not tolerate a total absence of regulation. Finally, the undergraduates themselves have arrived at a state of general apathy concerning the issue...
...first place, out of 1608 men in the three upper classes, only 772 voted. Secondly, the ballot revealed that the supporters of a return to Faculty supervision were in a six-to-one minority, while the advocates of no supervision totalled a comfortable plurality. The present Honor System was indifferently supported. Finally, however, when the Student Council discovered from the Dean that there was not a chance in a million of the Faculty's ever approving the absence of any regulatory system, it wisely turned the whole thing over to the Faculty without comment. And, as The Yale Alumni Weekly...