Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brother Frank heads F. H. Peavey & Co., world's largest grain elevator system...
...quite understand the mystification of our French friends, who love all things clean cut and logical, in contemplating an arrangement of this kind which no logical brain could ever have created. The idea of States belonging to one political system, and yet having such elasticity that disagreement over matters of foreign policy is not altogether excluded, would be incomprehensible to many...
...chief failure so far in the Mexican system has been in the matter of local government. The people frequently regard the local officials as unfairly chosen, which results in a nation-wide political inertia...
...place, in the opinion of this committee, vocational guidance should aim to be human rather than scientific. It is a problem in helping young men find themselves, to be answered by sympathetic human contact rather than by statistical analysis. There can be no single method and no sure-five system. The committee is strongly opposed to any idea of routine measurement of capacity or pigeon-holing of personality by any chart system whatsoever. Intelligence tests should be taken as indicating perhaps the possession of capacity but never the lack of it. Records of grades and activities should only supplement opinions...
Since one man is needed, the committee is opposed to a system of guidance by a faculty committee, functioning through a secretary. Such a system would first of all impose an enormous burden on the members of the committee, since guidance, to be more than mere information-giving, must involve incessant and often apparently useless interviews. Faculty members giving such guidance would be obliged to drop nearly all their academic work. If the members of the committee were not active, the work would presumably be done by the secretary. Insofar as the secretary were permanent, accessible, and capable he would...