Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who have dabbled in touch football and other forms of intramural sport will welcome the step toward organization of this branch of athletics, which will be taken with the meeting of the Intramural Sports Council today. The lack of the system and of the stability imparted by the existence and activity of a governing body has been the most salient feature of the essays made in the field of inter club competition at Harvard...
...reaching in its results than the sense of responsibility generated in the minds of those engaging in competition under the direction of the new body. Instead of a haphazard series of games played under varying conditions of personnel of teams and with diverse rules, there will be organized a system before which difficulties will be smoothed...
...have, week after week, presented myself for a trial upon the above charges, which has been denied me. "The repeated, published assertion of your president that he will put the superintendent out; the degradation of your school system in the eyes of the entire country by editorial condemnation of this trial as a farce and vaudeville; the cloud of aspersion you permit to remain on your best teachers that they recommended to the superintendent the adoption of poisoned books; the effect on your school children of the "continued newspaper characterization of your proceedings as a travesty on justice; the repeated...
...alleged row with Maria Jeritza, new Austrian import then, because Jeritza was given certain of Farrar's roles. But Farrar and Jeritza never met, the latter admired the U. S. singer tremendously, went often to hear her. The truth was that Farrar, sole relic of the Conried star system, was getting bits of discipline from the management. She herself was tired out, vocally, spiritually. The death of her mother had been difficult for her. There had been the divorce from Cinema-Hero Lou Tellegen* whom she married in 1916. When Mr. Gatti offered her a new contract...
Cowpox and smallpox are intimately related. Pus taken from a human smallpox sore and innoculated into a cow gives the beast cowpox. The cow's system reduces the virility of the smallpox germs. Pus from a cowpox sore in turn, through vaccination, makes humans resistant to smallpox; it makes them immune. The three New York victims, by milking their infected cows, vaccinated themselves unwittingly. Previously they had not been vaccinated in the ordinary way. Had they been, they probably would not have contracted the cowpox...