Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nominations will close Thursday, March 8. Elections will commence on the following Monday, March 12. Ballots will be taken for two days at each of the four Freshman halls and at Sever Hall. The balloting will be conducted on the preferential system. The list of nominees so far is as follows...
That subject of perennial attack, the American educational system, is assailed anew in a series of articles in the current New Republic, entitled "Adult Education", with a zeal so Menckenesque that it seems almost homesick away from the more familiar pages of the Mercury. Witness this description of the sad fate of the products of the present system: "Most Americans seem to have reached mental old age at the age of thirty. They reflect in stereotypes; they converse in slogans; their thinking is reiteration, and their action consequently--violence." The remedy, say these critics, lies in continuing the educational process...
...President Coolidge having forbidden them to regard their semiweekly visits to his office as "interviews" (TIME, Feb. 13), newsgatherers last week refrained entirely from submitting written questions. It was the end of a custom six years old. To take its place, President Coolidge instituted a voluntary announcement system. The effect was dull. After gazing mutely at the slim, deliberate fingers on the neat Executive desk; at the immobile Executive countenance, over which the skin is so much more loose and translucent than shows in photographs, the newsgatherers shuffled out with nothing more significant to report than that the President would...
...resolution by boyish Senator LaFollette "that it is the sense of the Senate that the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents of the United States in retiring from the Presidential office after their second term has become, by universal concurrence, a part of our republican system of government and that any departure from this time-honored custom would be unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions...
Elsewhere, however, the system has great possibilities. How much worry and anxiety would be saved at Harvard after every exam if the female relatives of each professor would combine to work a large tapestry with each student's name and grade on it. This could be hung in the front of the room and would both let the student know his fate sooner and relieve the section men of the difficulty of correcting the papers. But best of all, and most saving of energy and time, would be the practice of sending to applicants for admission a lace handkerchief with...