Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This statement is not correct. The Wilmington Whist Club is one of the best bridge clubs in the country. It is a prosperous club and has been operated for many years without playing for a stake or without playing Sundays. The system of playing bridge at the club is entirely one of individual records. These records are tabulated monthly and each member's standing posted by classes at the end of the month...
...system now in use at Harvard is, I believe, unquestionably the best of those surveyed here. It is the only one that has a logical, well worked out theory of education behind it. The others seem to have grown up, hit or miss, with the years and the theory behind them, which I have expounded above is childish in comparison. Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Williams and Dartmouth have succeeded, by some miracle of inefficiency, in interfering both too much and too little in their students' choice of studies. Too much--because for the first two years they suppress all individuality, practically...
...compared the regulations of the various colleges given above can fail to observe that the great superiority of the Harvard system over the rest, including our own, is the fact that there is some plan about it, some attempt at a rational ordering of each student's curriculum. We talk vaguely of "laying a good foundation" and of "two years of concentrated study" and we boast that our graduates are well-rounded as well as being rather deeply learned in one direction. I say they are neither.....Intellectually I am Gilbert's "a thing of rags and patches;" my mind...
...these reasons that I believe Harvard's "Rules for Concentration and Distribution" to be the most satisfactory system of requirements now in use among the larger Eastern colleges. Torquemada in The Yale News...
...group. This diffuse quality attracts, as President Pease says, "those members of the student body who seek the maximum of credit with the minimum of effort." He suggests the division of certain kinds of courses into smaller classes as the most immediate remedy. Beyond that lies the tutorial system, which as in use at Harvard is instilling what President Pease calls "the joys of accurate, independent, comprehensive and creative thinking...