Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...careful effort that has been made to minimize the shock of installing the House Plan, by avoiding too close an imitation of the Oxford-Cambridge system, has received several reverses in the proposed administration at Lowell House. The differences between it and its brother House are slight, yet they offer a certain basis for the contention that the new Harvard will be over-Anglicized; and they are definitely of a sort to restrain the development of the close relationship of student and tutor that is part of the House Plan. In Lowell House, the tutor's table...
...there is no strong reason against such permission. A sudden influx into one dining-room, while that of another house is vacant, is a rather far-fetched objection, and it will be possible to figure on the total of meals served in all houses, as accurately as under the system proposed by the University. Furthermore, the extra incentive to eat at houses other than one's residence is quite in agreement with the purpose of the House Plan...
Nock expressed admiration for the library system at Harvard and explained that the privilege of studying in stacks was a great help to a scholar. To one who is collating a text or occupied in some other equally fine research the convenience of studies in the stacks is invaluable. He thought that the Widener Library is perhaps the greatest asset of Harvard...
...buildings in which they live. Perhaps it is not simply a contrary reaction which inspires the frantic defense of eating where one chooses and brings forth slightly ridiculous remarks about the spirit of democracy, the traditional freedom of the undergraduate, and--thunder from Plympton Street--the evils of the system. It may be that the upperclassmen have some sentiment about breaking established attachment with the Georgian. And there will naturally and rightly be some concern about the fate of the Clubs. But if their place is equally well or better filled by the Houses, there ought to be no great...
...Harvard dormitories disguised as "Inner college" that are hardly more than a dignification and moralistic extension of the Harvard tutorial system, are significant only as more paternalism and increased floor space. After all Harvard would have been rather silly in the eyes of the world to turn down Mr. Edward F. Harkness' preferred eleven millions-even though he tied up the gift with the requirement that it must be used for student-faculty "houses." Michigan Daily...