Word: systemize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...order to elevate the standard of college entrance examinations, fourteen New England colleges (including Harvard and Yale) have now joined the Commission on Admission Examinations. The commission, which will comprise one faculty member from each college, has still another object in view-the establishment of a system by which the requirements for admission will be more uniform than they are at present. The need of which has been felt by many young men who have been compelled to go to preparatory schools which made a specialty of fitting for some college other than the one they wished to enter. Thus...
...Possible Boston," the Rev. Edward Everett Hale; Jan. 14, "The Rise of American Cities," Professor Albert B. Hart; Jan. 21, "Birmingham: A Study of City Government in England," the Rev. John Cuckson; Jan. 28, "Berlin: A Study of City Government in Germany," Sylvester Baxter; Feb. 4, "The New Ballot System," Richard H. Dana; Feb. 11, "The True School Board," William A. Mowry, Ph. D.; Feb. 18, "The Government of Boston," Henry H. Sprague; Feb. 25, "Josiah Quincy, the Great Mayor," the Hon. Mellen Chamberlain...
...freedom in choice of studies varies with the universities; in some the students can elect their studies from the very beginning; in others after two years. This so-called elective system, which has reached its height at Harvard, has been for many years, and is still, the subject of a warmly waged controversy turning upon the question whether Greek should be compulsory...
VIII. There is no argument for a government post-office system which does not apply with equal force to a government telegraph system.- Nation, 37, p. 90; Sen. Rep., 48th Cong., "Statements," p. 66; Jevons, Methods of Social Reform...
...Telegraph operatives are skilled workmen who cannot safely be removed. Hence the proposed system would be a valuable model of a nonpartisan civil service.- Sen. Rep., 48th Cong., "Statements...