Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three officers of the Freshman Class closed last night with one more addition, that of Thomas Wilson Dunn '31 of Boston, for president, announced A. E. French '29 in charge of Freshman affairs. The voting will take place Monday and Tuesday and will be conducted under the preferential system. In this system a voter must vote for every nominee; otherwise his vote will be declared void. He votes in the order of preference, and the nominee having the smallest total of votes wins the office...
...present delegate system is hardly an expression of true democracy. The men who will represent Massachusetts in the coming Republican convention, for example, have no idea whom they will vote for. They pay their own railroad fare to get to the Convention and they will east their vote so as to get the best possible return from it. The delegation should really be a group of errand boys who have been delegated to vote a certain way by the people of the state, and who will do it. If you were to take a poll of a deaf and dumb...
...commanding problem of liberal education in America," Dean Holmes stated, "is the problem of unifying secondary education and collegiate education without denying the essential characters and modern development of either, To find a remedy for the existing situation is a difficult problem. The system of concentration and distribution, now used here at Harvard, with general examinations at the final stages of progress in the subjects of concentration might be tried in the preparatory schools, and prove the solution to the problem. There must be, however, cooperation with the colleges, and one college must take the lead in starting...
...Bolsheviks. To be sure, it is only after the Soviets had tried to produce tractors on their own account from-pirated plans, but when these were discovered to cost six times as much as American product and in addition failed to run, they capitulated to the rival system...
...these cover such topics as expenses in college, marriage of undergraduates, drinking, and opinions on courses in general. A feature of the questionnaire is the fact that it gives the individual ample opportunity to express his candid views on the more vital functions of the college, such as the system of divisional examinations at present followed, the tutorial system, the Reading Period, and the club system...