Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Education. President William Herbert Perry Faunce of Brown University stood before the convention to flay the U. S. public school system. Said...
...have in America the largest public school system on earth, the most expensive college buildings, the most extensive curriculum, but nowhere else is education so pointless and aimless, so blind to its objectives, so indifferent to any specific outcome as in America...
...freshman, "Don't take advice too seriously," might, with slight alterations, be addressed to members of university faculties in general, and of the College of Arts and Sciences faculty in particular. The admonition for professors and instructors alike should read, "Don't give advice too seriously." The system of under and upper class advisors which prevails in the Arts college is an excellent one, so long as the advisors remain in character, and act as advisors only. Far too many of the men who perform the onerous task of interviewing students bring into their respective offices a set of ideas...
...Hurd merely presents an analysis of Oxford's personal methods, based upon the personality of the tutor, as delineated in contrast to the stamping mold of American college machinery. He attacks the Oxford system for the boredom and indifference which thirty years of monotonous repetition forces upon even the best of tutors...
Captain Biddlecomb continued by describing the peculiar system used in Germany, by which the individual municipalities rather than the central government tend to support the aerial transport routes through subsidies. "Germany," he said, "has also made rapid strides in the technical development of air craft, being forced by the limiting clauses of the Peace Treaty to obtain maximum efficiency with minimum horsepower...