Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special case. Its close relation to the other buildings of the school will enable the Dean to keep in close touch with his affairs and will render easy the duties of "landlording" required from the University. The proposed masters' houses to be built in connection with the projected Harvard system appear to have the same justification for University ownership, but it cannot be too clearly pointed out that this should not establish a precedent for a general University housing program. The difficulties of managing isolated units and keeping everybody happy are too great to warrant the University's participation...
Objection is made to this system of relief on the ground that the farmer in the cooperative association risks a loss, whereas the farmer who stays out profits by higher prices gained through the association's activities but risks no loss...
...shall employ a double-track system, each track in a separate tunnel," said Don Luis. "Then there will be no possibility of a complete tie-up of the service, even should a train be wrecked...
Important, though seldom discussed, is the manufacturing ratio between a day's pay and a day's work. Last week Gerard Swope, president of General Electric Co., discussed piecework versus timework payment, said that ''modifications of the piece rate system" had been introduced in General Electric plants. Figures on num-ber of employes, total salaries and total sales showed that in 1928 General Electric Co. had paid an average of 73,526 employes $134,056,000 and had received orders for $348,848,512 of C. E. products. The average employe therefore was paid...
...unlike the U. S. educational system is Canada's. To each province, as to each U. S. state, is left the administration of public grade schools, high schools, colleges. But Canadian colleges cling to English form and traditions, resemble Harvard, Yale, Princeton rather than the Universities of Michigan, Nebraska, California...