Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...national system of secondary school education is to undergo examination by a recently appointed committee composed of professors, state school commissioners and teachers gathered from all parts of the country...
...gradual spread in the college of the system of general examinations and tutors from a small beginning in one department seventeen years ago to practically all undergraduate work speaks for itself. Carrying ahead the same concept of a liberal education from the undergraduate to the professional field the leaders of the School of Business Administration hope to give further stimulus to those men who are able to go ahead in a definite field of study. From the point of view of the university as a whole the extension of the idea of individual responsibility to the Business School is another...
...Harvard Student Budget system was instituted in 1926 by vote of the Student Council. Its purpose was to stop the door to door soliciting of such organizations as the American Red Cross, the Cambridge Council of Boy Scouts and the Salvation Army, and also to provide a systematic way of collecting the necessary funds for the Phillips Brooks House Association and the various activities of the classes...
Dean Holmes pointed out that the difficulties of marking presented no adequate reason for abolishing the system, as Professor Rogers suggested, but that they merely made more accurate grading necessary...
...these men expect to accomplish anything, they have before them a difficult task. Free education to all is admittedly a commendable idea, but the present method of carrying it out is of dubious merit. Formulated by men of democratic principles, the present system is an example of democracy carried too far. Proceeding on the assumption that all men are created equal, and should therefore receive equal doses of education, the founders of American public schools are necessarily constrained to keep scholastic standards down to the level of the lowly, but unfortunately ample, ranks of the barren-witted...