Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relationship, as in American democracy at its inception. For modern times, when the patriarchal form of government is constantly losing ground, and when democracy is tending "to reduce all things,--government, art, literature and morals,--to the vulgar level of mediocrity," Mr. Denison proposes what he calls the anepsiarchal system, based on the relationship not of father and sons nor of brother, but of cousins, a system which frankly recognizes the inequalities of men and of the groups which they naturally form, and which combines such groups in an ascending line between horizontal and perpendicular. Among the cousin groups...
...synthesis of a lifetime of reading and travel into a plausible system for directing civilization; as such it may appeal to Harvard men unsatisfied with the specific details of daily classes and the restricted subjects of their theses. For those who like to discuss in leisurely fashion the facts and philosophies of history and their bearing on current problems of religion and on such personal problems as fraternities, and who wish to formulate standards of judgment and conduct, this book should be a stimulus, presenting as it does much wide-ranging information with the common sense of an American gentleman
...would include the general office and accounting work, keeping all records having to do with the general functions of the organization, and the handing of the company's finances. It would start with the receiving and shipping records, include the book-keepers and clerks, tie up with the cost system, and extend through the office of the treasurer...
...improvement as a whole would increase the park and play ground area, would relieve traffic congestion, would tie in with other traffic arteries which are being planned, would complete the park system along the Basin, and would do all this at a minimum cost as compared with street widenings or park construction in more built-up parts of the district. It would add greatly to the beauty of the Basin...
...inability of two parties to compete on unequal preparation is manifest, Princeton with a divisional system complete in two years. Yale with a system quite as dissimilar, Cambridge under a totally different conception of the curriculum, can scarcely compete with Harvard under a divisional plan in absolute accord with the terms of the competition. Harvard has made its own rules. This would be an obvious stumbling block in any field of competition. And particularly in the field of scholarship, one finds no definite limits, no rules of the game, whereby one and all may compete on the same grounds...