Word: systemize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present system of voting is inadequate: some change is necessary to prevent corruption and intimidation. N. A. Rev. 143: 628; Labor's Encyclopedia Art "Ballot"; Reports of contested election cases for past ten years in U. S. Documents; Public Opinion, December...
...true remedy for the abuses of the existing system is not legislation but the education of public opinion.- Internat. Rev. VIII, 534 Mill's Representative Government...
...less blind to the labor problems of the day. With this end in view, he has rented a hall near the place where the workingmen live, and holds free discussions there every Thursday evening on such subjects as the tariff, trade-unions, convict and Chinese labor, the eight hour system, and strikes. These meetings are well attended, the men show considerable intelligence, and after a little while are able to argue very well. He has, besides, regular classes in political economy, where he reads and talks to those who are interested enough to come. The men in these classes study...
...system of reserving certain books in the Reading Room for the benefit of those men who wish to read up on special subjects, has been in use in the Library for several years, and the constantly increasing use of the reserved books proves the system to be a useful one. Many men who are unwilling to spend large sums of money on books, have at their command during the day many books of value which they can use as conveniently as if they owned them themselves...
...system, however, in spite of its advantages, is subject to constant abuse. Men are very careless about returning books to their proper places, and though complaints on this head are constantly appearing in the columns of the CRIMSON, they seem to have little effect. It takes more trouble to replace a book on its proper shelf than to leave it lying on the table. But it also takes more trouble to look over the ten or twelve tables in the reading room before finding a book, than to get it from the shelf where it belongs. Men forget that what...