Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...condition of international law is far from satisfactory at the present," Mr. Wickersham continued. "Problems of a most embarrassing nature are constantly arising, and sometimes constitute serious menaces to the legal harmony of government. Hitherto there has been no single system of law whereby countries can judge their cases. Custom and a wide variety of precedents have been practically the only criteria for the just determination of conduct. Obviously conflict was the inevitable result of such contradictory standards...
...sufficient substitute. For commuters, the Union offers its lounges and Dining Room. For the unHoused, who will, especially in the first years of the House Plan, be numerous, the entire building is of unique value. And for the rest of the students, who do find places in the new system, the Union will still supply an excellent library, and recreational advantages that will otherwise, even then, be possible only for club members. Statistics show that the Union's financial soundness is totally independent of the Dining Room with any regularity; and this is the part of the Union that will...
Refusal of Loans. It is therefore very debatable whether any Federal Reserve bank would or could refuse a loan to a member in good standing. Says W. Randolph Burgess, assistant Federal Reserve agent in New York writing of the Reserve System in 1927*: "A Reserve bank cannot tell from the nature of its loans what its money will be used for. . . . It is thus impossible for a Reserve bank to dictate how its credit shall be put to employment. . . . The specific use of credit is the business of the individual member and nonmember bank. . . . What the Reserve banks do primarily...
...features of the evening will be the presentation of the Wingate Trophy and the Wendell Bat. Both these trophies are awarded annually. The former is given to the best all-around player on the team. The Wendell Bat is awarded on the basis of a point system. One point is credited to a player for every safe arrival at first base, sacrifice hit, and stolen base, and for every run scored...
Although the opponents of mass education have plenty of sound criticism, which should aid greatly in correcting a system which due to its comparative novelty has many apparent defects, nevertheless many overlook the crux of the problem. If the main weakness in the system lies in a popular misconception of the value of a college education and even further academic work for a doctorate, it will indeed be difficult to change the ideas of approximately one hundred and twenty million people. The solution must as a result be found by the colleges and carried out by a more intelligent method...