Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anyone who is aware of the complexity of undergraduate social life in American colleges, and who is therefore conscious of the prejudices that are inevitably aroused when the adequacy of the club or fraternity system is challenged will grant that Harvard has undertaken the more difficult task when she attacks the problem as it relates to undergraduates. One can but admire the courage of the Harvard authorities in venturing upon so thorny a path. --McGill. Daily
...example, the 2% quota system now admits 51,227 Germans each year. Just prior to the census of 1890, there was a heavy tide of German immigration, far above Germany's average in earlier and subsequent periods. Under National Origins, the German quota would be cut down...
...other hand, the majority ot U. S people are of British ancestry. British immigration had dwindled when the 1890 census was taken. The British quota on that basis allows only -34,007 newcomers. Under the National Origins system Great Britain's quota would...
...Francisco bank clearings totaled more than $11,000,000, largest west of Chicago, fifth largest in U. S. Of the 100 largest U. S. banks (1928) there were 30 in New York, 11 in Chicago, 8 in San Francisco. Home of Bank of Italy, central bank of the Giannini system. San Francisco shrugs its shoulders at cinema and citrus, argues that from the standpoint of stable commerce, of sound finance, of industrial prosperity, that the glitter of the Golden Gate is still undimmed...
American Telephone & Telegraph. U. S. telephoning showed fewer "wrong numbers" and many more telephones, reported President Walter S. Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. The year added 798,592 phones to the Bell system, making a total of 19,200,000 U. S. phones in Bell system interconnections. Ignorant persons called "information" 750,000 times a day. American Tel & Tel showed a net income of $143,170,491, an increase of $14,555,581 over...