Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of years ago this system of awarding the small minor H to those teams that defeated Yale and also won three quarters of their scheduled contests was adopted. At the time this was an intelligent forward step but with the change in the attitude of undergraduates which has taken place recently it has become completely antiquated. Today men are primarily interested in playing the game, and although the desire to win is naturally still a vital factor in all athletic encounters it is not the completely dominant one that it once...
...midget road for a test case, the O'Fallon carries coal over a nine-mile track in Southern Illinois. It is owned largely by the Adolphus Busch estate which also owns the Manufacturers' R. R., a 20-mile system in Missouri physically unconnected with the O'Fallon...
...Supreme Court's decision avoided specifying how much such cost must be a factor in the I. C. C.'s evaluating system. That was the railroad's mighty victory...
...then courses other than these introductory surveys, seem a hindrance. Seniors, if they are not assumed to be robots, has best go their own gait, using lectures, books, and discussions for one general end according to their individual capacity,--not for several unintegrated courses along the way. The tutorial system, in other words, still seems to be superimposed, to integrate the course system; whereas ideally the course system should merely supplement it. This seems to be the prevalent opinion. But one system can only grow at the expense of the other--hence, lower required courses...
...near end for a far end, and blur the student's purpose. As is generally admitted, working for factual course examinations induces memorizing. It emphasizes the method of studying for fact rather than for understanding, because course examinations are apt to be matters of fact. Thus the course system, in the handgrip mouth method of study it inculcates, hinders the student working for a general examination...