Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Burns' chief recommendation is his speed. One of the leading short distance sprinters in the University, he shows up to even greater advantage on the gridiron than on the track. In an open, speedy system of attack Burns might well prove a valuable factor. Whether or not his field judgement would qualify him to direct Crimson football fortunes through the important encounters of the season is a question which time alone can decide...
...wholesale method. Each institution must adjust its own mechanics and find its own means of curtailment; successful methods in a certain college by no means provides for similar success in another. Speaking of that with which he is best acquainted, Mr. Angell says that the selective system has proved "distinctly gratifying" at Yale...
...materialized, and it appears that the "cafeteria" menace will go unchecked as ever for at least another year. Nor is this failure of the authorities to provide a new Dining Hall much their fault. Undergraduates simply do not seem to wish to return to the club table system which existed in Memorial Hall for fifty years, and to which President Lowell thinks they will return. But 180 men were willing to commit themselves to club tables in the CRIMSON questionnaire. Five hundred are needed to make a new Dining Hall financially successful...
...plan will be worked out by the various course heads. The same situation holds in the division of Ancient Languages as in that of Modern Languages, except that the reading periods may be extended to certain courses open to Freshman. Greek B, for instance, will adopt the new system because of the large number of upperclassmen regularly enrolled in its ranks. The division of Philosophy and Psychology will likewise put the reading plan into effect. In Philosophy not only the advanced but also the lower courses. Philosophy A, B, 1, and 1a, will adopt the periods, and it is probable...
...might say that the efficiency of this method of registration which is at once so simple for the student and, it is presumed, satisfactory for the University office, is attested by the comparative paucity of errors. It is not at all unusual in other institutions, whose systems are more onerous, for a person to wait as long to rectify a mistake as to make one. Here a student may be as much subject to changes of mind but he can console himself with the thought that he has a reasonable period of grace in which to discover whether...