Word: systemize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...another experience two years ago of the abuse of the reserved book system. When wishing to use a text of the "Nibelunger Lied," I found that some instructor had put all the texts on the reserved list. It seems to me only fair that, where several copies of a work are in the Library, one at least should be kept in circulation. Instructors are too apt to reserve indiscriminately everything bearing on their subject, and thus to prevent readers who do not happen to take their courses from getting as much benefit from the Library as they have a right...
...President White, of Cornell University, who has made a life-long study of the higher educational systems and problems both of this country and of the Old World, has prepared a sketch of the "Next American University," which is published in the Forum for June. He would have a great school so organized that the most promising students of every leading American institution should have encouragement and direction, each in the prosecution of his specialty, at any American or foreign school that he choose; and that these thoroughly trained students should be maintained by this great central university to investigate...
...work, and entirely voluntary on the part of the student. In spite of this drawback the instructor who has had the course in charge during the past two years has succeeded in obtaining excellent results. Now that the subject is to be given its proper place in the elective system, the scope of the course will doubtless be much broader, and the benefit derived from it much greater than has been possible under the limitations heretofore existing...
...with the same careful coaching that aided the playing and base running of the team in the recent game, we think that there is a good chance for success at Yale. We must warn the captain of the nine, however, not to let the coaching degenerate into a system of tactics scarcely worthy of Harvard...
...annual meeting of the Harvard Club, May 12, the New York alumni discussed the recent restrictions of the overseers. About one hundred members of the club were present, and the unanimous sentiment was in favor not only of retaining the old system of sports but also of allowing contests with professionals. The following resolutions were drawn up by George Walton Green, who recently presented the petition of the alumni to the Board of Overseers...