Word: systemize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Best general reference: Professor F. W. Taussig's article in Forum for October, 1888. Evils of the Tariff system, in North American Review, September 8, 1884; Sumner on Protective Taxes and Wages, in Fortnightly review...
Already we have heard here and there some premature adverse criticism upon the new janitor system which seems to us to resemble the croaking of chronic grumblers. Doubtless there may be cases of genuine grievances, and with the sufferers from an such we sympathize. In general, however, the grumbling we have heard seems decidedly premature. It can hardly be expected that with but two weeks of trial the new system should work to perfection. It should certainly be accorded a fair trial before it is atterly condemned; if, after that trial, it proves inefficient, there will be time enough then...
...system of discipline at Harvard differs materially from that in vogue at Oxford. In the English university the discipline is quite rigid. The college gates are closed at a certain hour of the night, and the students are supposed to be within college limits at that time. There are other restrictions that are designed to keep the members of the university more or less in check. At Harvard, no such strictness of discipline prevails. The students are given a wider liberty, and each man is thereby thrown upon his own responsibility. The effects of the two systems are, of course...
Keeping in purpose, also, to this system is the plan adopted last evening in the lecture delivered by President Eliot to those students who have come to Harvard this year for the first time. We welcome most heartily all efforts such as these for the establishment of better relations between students and faculty, and for the uplifting of student opinions and standards. Through such methods only can we hope for the development of that which is highest in student character...
...most important of all. If the elaborate training men receive here does not result in the improvement of character the training is worthless. He appealed earnestly to every man in the class to do all in his power to purify and elevate college opinion. Here, support of the Chapel system is one of the most important elements of that responsibility, and President Eliot's closing remarks were devoted to this subject...