Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general broad view over and the correlation of the various forces which have produced the contemporary state of mankind, is almost a commonplace in the academic life of such an institution as is Harvard where not only many courses as for example, Biology A, but ultimately the tutorial system itself are designed to weld together isolated facts into a coordinated whole...
...other hand, the younger graduate is more inclined to appreciate the prerogatives possessed by the contemporary Harvard man. He probably feels that the evils of present day Harvard undergraduate life are less obnoxious than they are painted by the warmest supporters of the Housing system. For undergraduate life at Harvard is not so unnatural and artificial that the House Plan can eliminate immediately the small social groups, as one Harvard Club officer predicts. The more enthusiastic older alumni are too optimistic. When it is admitted that the same small social groups will be just as conspicuous a part...
With the rapid changes which are constantly being made in the attempt to adjust the circular system to the divisional examinations and the distinction theses, it seems highly probable that the time is not far removed when Seniors who are candidates for distinction will be relieved of all regular work during the last half of the year, when the demands of divisional examinations are falling most heavily upon them...
...there are further shortcomings of the Fogg, just as serious, to which no allusion was made. These are: the extremely poor lighting of both the Large and Small lecture rooms during slide-lectures; the noise and inefficiency of the ventilating system; and the swarming of women students in the Library, particularly at times immediately preceding examinations in large Fine Arts courses...
...probed boldly into questions of sex: What did students think about trial marriage, sexual relations, licit and illicit, large families, birth control, proper age for marriage? The investigators explained that "during the last several decades it has become unceasingly apparent that there is something seriously wrong with the traditional system of marriage in this country." Two hundred students had written out their answers before President Brooks and the alumni objected. The answers were grimly guarded from curious eyes. Expulsions impended...