Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close an interest in legal lumber may blind the judiciary to the merits of the individual trees of the forest. The English Cabinet System, disclaiming the principle of checks and balances upon which the Sacco-Vanzetti defense is appealing to the Governor, nevertheless guards against too close a perspective by mingling expert under-secretaries with non-expert politician in administering its public business...
...look upon it as a mere corruption of student privilege and as a detriment to the efficiency of an institution, its regulations and practical control subject themselves to closer investigations. It is in this agency that Princeton undergraduates are proposing certain changes, in the hope that a renovated system will avoid any that a renovated system will avoid any such disturbance as marked the career of the Princeton Student Council during the present year, when it came into strained relations with the trustees over the question of student automobiles...
...student government. Heretofore in most colleges the Student Council has been a pretty toy, an honorary roll of prominent undergraduates, the efficiency of which is subjugated to its glory. If adopted at Princeton and enforced with the rigidity which in its present form it seems to demand, the system will cease to be only symbolical of student cooperation and will be in reality a vital factor in the daily life of the college. The instigators of the project at Princeton appear to be firmly convinced that student government has won its spurs by a period of restrained and sub-servient...
Inevitably this continuity of Fred Moore's effort means continuity of the value to Harvard of the fruits of that effort. In the years after 1913, Moore, by giving the graduate treasurership his own full time, constructed for this office a complete, an efficient, a business like system, for use of the time of others: In a word, he created and perfected a real business organization. One which now will run on, even though the boss be gone on a holiday a holiday which also was a Solidiers' Day from which he will never return. The Boston Transcript...
...repertory system is to offer a rotation of a few good plays rather than long runs of a bad or at least undeserving ones. The Theatre Guild has tried it successfully in New York this winter and it that city, satiated with all, sorts and diversities of dramatic entrees can regulate itself to the selections on a pre-announced menu, others less fortunate in luxuries, can surely do the same. The reparatory plan is excellent in that it provides variably for both east and public and for members of the former it is certainly an asset, since no actor...