Word: systemize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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STUDENTS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: On or about November 1st. I shall open a school of Shorthand and Type-writing at Harvard square (positive time and location announced later) expressly for the students of Harvard College. I shall teach my new system of short hand, which is liberally endorsed by the press and expert stenographers as the easiest, briefest and most accurate system of shorthand extant; it can be completely mastered in three months and a speed of 125 words per minute acquired. Pupils write from the first lesson. The first week will be free and I cordially invite all students...
...contact with the work of the great masters and no more broadening influence can be exerted on men than being present with these ancient works of art. The French school is a marked example of this. The students returning thoroughly interested in their work have influenced the whole French system of education. The Athenian school is a centre from which men may start in their researches, and Athens itself has many advantages as a place for a school. The climate is good for at least eight months in the year, all the comforts of any European capital...
...arrangements and accomodations for books, also, it departs from the old type of libraries. The former structure resembled a church with lofty columns and arches, the alcoves and cases for books perched on gatteries or balconies. This system while effective for spectular purposes, was a very bad one for a library where books were to be well cared for. Those in the upper part of the room were inaccessible on account of the number of stairs to be climbed and at the same time were injured by the great heat. The scheme of the new library is radically different...
...very successful way the causes of our lack of success in athletics in recent years. It is only too true that one of the fatal weaknesses of the college in an athletic way is our proneness to one-man dependence, or as the Advocate terms it, "the star system." A result of this is that we are easily discouraged; let anything happen to our star and we become despondent and down on our luck, lose half our energy for work, and are of course beaten. What we want is "a little more pluck and persistency," and a great deal more...
...those of us who are beginning to realize that the promised improvements which were to result from the new janitor system are a delusion and a snare, the second editorial strikes a responsive chord. The better service which we have all summer been persuading ourselves we were to have this year has not yet materialized. And a great many of us miss the old janitors; they understood our ways better than these new comers, and we resent a change which has not conduced in the least to our comfort or convenience...