Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today at 8.30 o'clock. H. W. Poor will give an illustrated lecture entitled "Scenic America". His talk will deal primarily with the National Parks, Grand Canyon, and the Indian Detour. The lecture is made possible through the courtesy of the Santa Fe Railway System...
...social revolution is manifest in the breaking down of the Caste system," pointed out the Indian writer, "and that overturning of the caste-system is the direct consequence of the industrial and economic revolution. At the top of the old caste system stood the Brahmins, followed by the princes, and then the various leyels of workers. But today with the stress upon the economic side of life, it is the millionaire and all rich men who form the highest caste, while below this group, trail the poor...
Both coaches are planning to develop a better defensive system. The University forwards H. T. Wenner '30 and A W. Slocum '28, with J. N. Barbee '28 at guard and W. H. Green '28 at center from a combination that has proven to have scoring power...
...system of fines used in Cambridge a century ago seems to have been a most elaborate one, according to this book. Students who did not "preserve stillness, abstaining from all noise and loud conversation, singing and all other noise, which may tend toward interruption," were fined "a penalty not exceeding $1." Also, "No student shall be an actor, or in any way a partaker in any stage plays or theatrical entertainments in the town of Cambridge, or a spectator at the same; under a penalty of $2. Nor shall he attend theatrical amusements in any other place in term time...
Leanor Fresnel Loree, the indefatigable, wished the road as part of his much discussed fifth eastern railroad system. In buying Lehigh Valley shares and securing proxies to vote at the Philadelphia meeting, Mr. Loree had back of him the fortunes of the Harriman family (he was a close associate of the late Edward Henry Harriman), and the even greater powers of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. He himself did not attend the meeting, remaining at his home at West Orange...