Word: systemize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this method one is allowed his own selections from the several authors; but it must be borne in mind that the essay thus prepared will be gauged by a much higher criterion than the work of those who take the full three-hour examination. The advantages of the new system are obvious, and the freshmen may congratulate themselves on being the first to avail themselves of such an excellent innovation...
...April number of the Quarterly Journal of Economics will contain the reply of President F. A. Walker to Professor McVane's criticisms on his "Theory of Business Profits"; an article on the "Philadelphia Ground Rent System," which has done so much to make that city a "city of homes," and a study of "United States Tariff History from 1830 to 1860," by Professor Taussig...
...Sons are issuing under the title of "Questions of the Day," is "Property in Land: An Essay on the New Crusade," by Henry Winn. The author reviews the most striking arguments in Mr. George's "Progress and Poverty," and states clearly his reasons for believing in the present social system as one of substantial justice...
...series of discussions on economic subjects, under the auspices of the Finance Club, will probably be a debate on tariff reform. Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, of Orange, N. J., will speak for a reduction of the tariff, and Mr. J. H. Walker, of Worcester, will defend the protectionist system...
Must it not be confessed that the system of college prizes is, on the whole, productive of bad results? It has little effect in stimulating the idle. It incites those who are already ambitious earnest workers to over-exertion. Success renders them conceited: failure often makes them bitter and discouraged. The whole system practically amounts to a lottery where the time staked instead of being regarded as a means of culture and future usefulness is considered as almost thrown away if the mercenary competitor fails to draw a prize...