Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declined membership in Phi Beta Kappa, thereby gaining not a little publicity, and furnishing jaded critics of education with enough controversial material to last them for some time. Mr. Eastman states that he does not regard making Phi Beta Kappa as an honor, since he considers that, "the present system of marks in colleges does not show the true ability of a student...
Doubtless it is true that the cut-and-dried system of judging scholastic ability is deficient, such has long been the contention of critics; but improvement is being sought here by a change in the very nature of college work. President Lowell's recent remarks at Chicago, apropos of modern educational methods, represent the standpoint of a progressive teacher...
Student government rests necessarily on the honor system. College students just cannot get enthusiastic over the honor system. It is a fundamental truth of undergraduate life that virtue must have its vacations and that college regulations must inevitably be sometimes disobeyed. And although there is a certain sportsmanlike joy in slipping one over on the administration, one's honor cannot be similarly lightly treated. The honor system holds one too strictly.. It is a pretty idea, but it works too well...
...Lorenzen '28 and J. M. Swigert '30 were chosen yesterday afternoon by E. M. Rowe 1L., coach of the University debating team, to debate the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia this evening on the question, "Resolved, That the jury system should be abolished." Besides the debating team and Coach Rowe, A. F. Reel '28 and D. E. Scoll '28, president and treasurer of the Debating Council, also left the South Station last night to make the trip. This debate marks the dedication of a new auditorium at Philadelphia...
Next to insincerity she scorned unintelligence, and was no respecter of persons in giving utterance to her scorn. "The Faculty," she said, "are the limit!" Certain modern methods in the Office she was pleased to call "the deficiency system." To her mind efficiency was the prerogative of individuals: any encroachment of the mechanical on the personal she balked at. "I was born saucy"; and, again, "I may lose my temper; but I never lose my head...