Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This new system, the latest project of Henry Ford, plans to inspire students by putting them into actual touch with every possible stage of development along the lines which they are following. That is, machines of every stage will be working there for the students to examine and understand thoroughly. Thus instead of being forced to read or examine diagrams on these subjects, they may get into the spirit of what they are doing by dealing with the machines themselves, and this may be an added spur to further research. In a word, the students at this new school...
...those to whom financial transactions on any but a large scale are apt to prove irksome, the present system of "pay as you enter" at the University Squash Courts is not entirely satisfactory...
Considerable haggling might be avoided by dispensing courts on a system of coupons comparable to that with which the H. A. A. News is distributed at the Stadium. This would prove of great assistance to the prospective athlete who arrives five minutes before the hour with a nickel and four pennies, as well as to the opposite type of individual who never has anything smaller than a five-dollar bill...
...given for buying such coupons issued in booklet form, and the plan would also be advantageous to the H. A. A. in handling funds. To the conscientious student who, at the beginning of the season promises himself to play squash at least three times a week, such a system would be of great convenience, as well as an added bulwark against the temptation to break the pledge, that comes with December hours, theses, and too much Vagabonding...
...plan advanced in the school paper to introduce a combination of the concentration and tutorial systems into the Choate School curriculum, while commendable because of the interest shown in individual scholarship, is a rather far step from the purpose of the secondary school. According to the outline proposed, the Choate News advocates a modification to some degree of the Harvard tutorial system, placing at the disposal of the high-ranking student the advantage of preparing special work aside from classroom courses under supervision of the masters. The project is similar to the Harvard system in that it allows sufficient opportunity...