Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Assistant Professor R. M. Eaton, head of the tutors in the department of Philosophy, brings up in the columns of today's CRIMSON the old and all important question of the final destination and purpose of Harvard's experiment with the tutorial system. As in the case of all large experiments of this sort involving first a sharp and radical change followed by a long period of slow evolution, the tutorial system is an off and on issue with the general undergraduate public. At one moment it is acutely aware of the existence of the tutorial plan; then follow varying...
...Eaton believes that there has been a general misapprehension as to the final goal, and he states a direct issue,--Oxford tutorial system versus the Lecture-Tutorial plan in effect at Harvard. Believing this issue to be of more than passing importance the CRIMSON will forego further editorial comment until tomorrow, when this column will be devoted to a careful and detailed discussion of the question...
Approximately $25,000 is constantly before the public as various prize and puzzle baits. To collect this wealth, the "puzzle trust" operates an information system, publishes a paper (for professionals) filled with inside facts, percentages, tips, systems, devices. To win the Graphic contest, they narrowed 6,000 possible titles down to four score. From these 80, their clients could make their various combinatioons; could submit them through the 50-odd names of "friends" which form a part of their professional equipment...
International Business Machines Corp. showed an electric tabulating and accounting machine that automatically compiled data from "tabulating" cards. These cards bear holes punched according to an office code to represent various factors necessary for bookkeeping. The holes regulate the action of counters on the machine. Governments use this system (called the Hollerith) in census work...
...Mason's reforms. At the same time, there are many students who come to college for a good time, with little interest in studies. This class, in addition to undergraduates who have not the initiative to work alone without assignments, will be entirely out of ploe under the proposed system...