Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same time delicately alluding to the great and successful United States of the New World. It is undeniable that the chief republic of North America has solved, with reasonable success, the problem of reconciling vast areas and immense populations with a comparatively simple and understandable federal system. It is equally undeniable that since the fall of the Roman Empire nearly fifteen centuries ago the rich Continent of Europe, including the fountains of Western culture and Western government, has been broken up into warring units. Likewise, it is true that the so-called Holy Roman Empire in North Central Europe reconciled...
...other difficulty lies at the other geographical extreme of Europe--Great Britain. That country is already part of an empire which has many of the elements of confederation--a common official language, a common system of laws for people of European derivation, a coordination of large and small units. If Great Britain joins a European United States, will that bring into the system the Europeanized communities of Canada and Australia and South Africa and the other far-flung colonies dominated by Great Britain? On a basis of equal representation of population groups. Great Britain and her dependencies would contribute...
According to the statistics, 58 more students than in 1928 attempted this year's tests. On the other hand, 249 fewer took the examinations than in September 1925, during which academic year the system providing for the passing off of language requirements with the attainment of certain marks is specified courses was instituted. In that year, 1109 students took the examinations, while this fall only 920 tried the tests. The general decrease is attributed directly to the alteration in the means of receiving credit for the requirements...
...Housing Plan we have heard much. We know what it means for education in the narrower sense. It means closer association between teachers and students, a more efficient organization and working of the tutorial system, a better provision of libraries and reading facilities. It will immensely improve and humanize the material surroundings of the undergraduates, in the same way as the Freshman Dormitory system has done for the entering class...
Pension Expert is a very real title to Mr. Sayre. Seven years after leaving Harvard in 1898, he was Pension Expert of the Carnegie Foundation. Now he is pension adviser to the U. S. Federal Reserve system, to the Church of England, as well as to the Episcopal Church. Present assets of the Protestant Episcopal Church Pension Fund are $25,000,000. Offices are at No. 14 Wall St., Manhattan. Income on the Fund supplies the pension money. To become eligible for pensioning, an Episcopal minister must be 68, retired or disabled. The average pension: $800 per year...