Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the year a beginning was made on a more complete classification system as applied to Business Literature. Our present classification was made in the early years of the School before the Faculty had an adequate basis for the work. It is very expensive to change but a welcome gift makes substantial progress possible. Concomitant with this classification work a start has been made upon building up an adequate cataloguing organization. Many books which have been stored for several years have been made available. Classification is of great importance, and to work out this problem in such a way that...
...that any encouragement of college men as a class to become a self-conscious group bent on leadership will result in the curtailment of legal or economic rights now enjoyed by the majority is mere demagoguery. To say that class leadership is wrong is nonsense. Already our social system is a resultant of classes clashing as classes. Banking as a class, labor as a class, politicians as a class, lawyers as a class, all are bent on control. Why not make an attempt to wake up the inter and irresponsible class of college men, try to make them...
...England has a similar sponsoring system...
...railroad. He didn't like (he said) the way the Pittsburgh & Virginia was run (it had gone through several receiverships), so be bought it. Later he acquired large holdings in Wheeling & Lake Erie and has since been attempting to put together the lake-to-sea system which George Gould had begun...
...limits of Prohibition. He proposed then to go into the "entire question of law enforcement and organized justice." He tried to subordinate Prohibition in the inquiry, to make it only one of many elements to be scrutinized. To the agenda were added such matters as immigration violations, the jury system, anti-trust statutes, court procedure, narcotics, general disrespect for Law. In the President's re-explanations of the investigation, Prohibition dwindled almost out of sight...