Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...typewriter is entirely different from machines we are accustomed to see. It consists of a tray of about 500 Chinese characters, a printed sheet or indicator showing the position of the various characters in the tray, a pointer, and the customary platen mechanism. The pointer is attached by a system of levers to the type tray; and when the former is brought over a desired character on the indicator, the corresponding letter on the type tray is brought beneath a small receptacle open at the bottom, but covered at the top by a rubber ball. A lever is pressed, suction...
Professor George La Piana in his criticism of the recent treaty between the Italian government and the Pope, emphasises the fact that this agreement again gives the church control of the destiny of Italy in permitting the ecclesiastical powers to direct the educational system. According to this pact, there will be compulsory religious training in all schools and colleges, in addition to the fact that the appointment and discharge of instructors will be determined by their achievements in the light of the papal standards. In appearance at least, Italy has fallen into the same rut of church domination that still...
...some unknown aspects of the question to necessitate taking such a risk. All of the achievements of this generation will be destroyed at the death of those who are responsible for them if the education of the coming citizens of Italy is allowed to be controlled by the antedated system of religious policy. Religion is moral, while education is intellectual, and an attempted combination of the two results in stagnation...
...emphasis of intelligent discussion rather than the defeat of the opposition is an appealing and practical phase of the new system. The oratorical outpouring of facts and arguments from an over-taxed memory will be supplanted by genuine and thorough understanding of all the aspects of the question involved in the controversy. Practical thinking will be bestirred and more valuable conclusions attained. By becoming an organic part of the whole procedure, the audience will derive a real benefit which only the privilege of questioning can provide. Debaters will resemble attorneys, who think on their feet and are so adroit...
...announcement of the winner by the audience should assure a more unbiased judgment than the present judicial system involving a few experts. Certainly the verdict of those uninformed, who can judge solely from the convincing force of the arguments as presented, should be a fairer criterion of the merits of the particular debaters than the decision of necessarily prejudiced experts. The Oregon system appears to be an answer to the existing demand for a more effective and valuable procedure in intercollegiate debating, and, judging from recent acclaim, bids fair to revive the dying popularity of the rostrum...