Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frozen asset while in transit. A middle-west manufacturer can put goods for export on a railroad train and forget about them until he receives the money for them from Bush Service, which will collect his customers' bills in Europe. An indication of the scope of the system: in Rumania there will be Bush Service offices in 14 cities, only one of which is even remotely familiar to American ears: Alba, Bucharest, Arad, Targu, Mures, Cernauti, Galatz, Braila, Constanza, Oradea, Timisora, Julia, Deva, Cluj...
CRIMINAL CODE?The penal system dynamically exposed...
...Daily a system of supervised dormitories for men hardly represents the ideal in student living quarters. For first-year men there may be an advantage in dormitories where they can make contacts and friendships, and possibly have some. Hollywood ideas of college corrected under tactful guidance, but the watchdog attitude that a dormitory supervisor is forced to assume should certainly not be carried beyond the freshman year. It stunts the development of self-reliance and self-discipline, both of which will be of equal importance with academic achievement when the student finds himself unshielded by his alma mater...
...contention that a shift from club or fraternity houses to the rooms offered by the House System will work an even greater hardship little need be said. President Lowell has repeatedly pointed out that men are not to be forced to enter the Houses. If it so develops that the atmosphere in the Houses is such to attract men to them, the extinction of the clubs involved will be but another example of the sound principal of survival of the fittest...
Harvard Juniors must within another week commit themselves definitely as to whether they do or do not wish to become part and parcel of the House Plan during their Senior year. In other words, the system which has been so deplored and so defended at Cambridge and at New Haven will now receive its first and perhaps its most vital test, that of undergraduate support or condemnation. Each junior at Cambridge must decide whether he desires to align himself with the new Harvard or prefers to complete his course under the traditional social system...