Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the previous system, or more correctly, lack of system, the graduating members of the student body were ejected upon the actualities of wage earning with no other assistance than a diploma, and individual inclinations. Unless he happened to be especially fortunate in family connections, he was forced to accept the position that chance offered rather than take the time definitely to consider what fields might be most attractive and accessible. The new plan of the omnipotent panacea for this evil, but it does afford a means of eliminating useless hunting and the acceptance of "trial jobs". The statistics...
...current crisis differs so widely in such important respects from those that have gone before that any prognostication is more than usually hazardous. In the first place, this is the first crisis in what may be termed normal conditions that the Federal Reserve System has experienced-not that anyone doubts its ability to extend any or all accomodation that may be needed. Its reserve ratio the past year or more has been between 70 or 75 per cent some 30 per cent above the legal minimum. Indeed, this unprecedented gold revenue may be said to have indirectly been behind...
...divergence in type among the summer schools will give rise to new viewpoints and methods, peculiar to individual institutions, which may prove beneficial for the delegates to the conference. The results of this meeting will help to solve some of the difficulties which confront a branch of the educational system which is growing ever more popular...
Educational methods, constantly shifting with the advent of new outlooks on life, are changing so fast that scholarships endowed for a definite course of study in one decade may be obsolete in the next. The St. Johns' plan introduces a novel system of study at college. There is a new field now opened up for those donors who are willing to give scholarships without any restricting stipulations, and who are willing to open up a limitless field of knowledge to those who are able to make advantage of the opportunities offered...
...system of debating to be used in the contest with the New Jersey Law School is that of split teams, where two men from each school speak on each team, giving each school an equal representation on both affirmative and negative sides. The method of selecting teams in the University is also new this year. A squad has been selected from which a team will be chosen prior to each debate of the season. Men who do not place on an inter-school debate will have an opportunity to improve their speaking before the next debate, and win a post...