Word: systemize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question involved. It is a universal tendency of college journalism to form hasty opinions on insufficient knowledge of a matter, and it appears that the Princetonian has erred in this direction. Unfortunately, too, a vein of malice seems to appear, which wounds more than the unjust condemnation of our system of recitations...
...past two or three years, and it is wise on Mr. Cady's part to continue the policy of training the candidates in the kind of exercise which will serve to quicken the hand and the eye and make the muscles firm, rather than to attempt a system of heavy training. Last fall Mr. Cady had several of the candidates practicing of Holmes' Field under his direction and by this preliminary training he has been able to get some idea of the kind of material which it will fall to his lot to train. The following are the candidates...
...anomaly that our colleges should teach a system which is directly opposed to the settled tariff policy adopted by our country almost from its foundation, and which intelligent men are soon forced to abandon. "This radical divergence between university training and the wise national policy which is overwhelmningly supported by the people (for very few Democrats are willing to be called free traders), is greatly to be deplored. The colleges cannot educate the mass of Americans to their doctrines, but they will alienate the university from the practical, thinking heart of the people, and displace it from the esteem...
...examine the shelves of these libraries by the shelf-lists. Temporary loans are made to these libraries from Gore Hall, so as to facilitate the instruction of the several departments. Of these ten subsidiary libraries six are open evenings, and are well patronized. The advantages reaped from this system of subsidiary libraries compensate for the trouble and annoyance it causes. As the useful books in the department are put in these subsidiary libraries, collateral reading is slightly impeded. Books of reference are put beyond the easy reach of frequenters of Gore Hall, and the liability to loss of books...
...That a return should now be threatened from the present system which those college officers best qualified to judge have pronounced a success, to the old one that has been tried and found wanting; that Harvard should deliberately retrace its steps, and from the university revert to the kindergarten, is a disappointment and a humiliation...