Word: systemize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last evening Prof. H. B. Hill gave a lecture before the Boylston Chemical Club, in which he showed the effects of arsenical papers on the human system. The question is of practical importance to every one of us, and in the present state of public opinion, it is our duty to agitate the subject as much as possible. In every country of Europe except England, the most stringent laws are in force against arsenical products, and in England, determined efforts are being made for proper legislation. In America, however, public opinion needs further education. It is popularly supposed that...
...Modern History at Cambridge, followed him. "A crisis in the history of English education is once more upon us," he said, "in that classicism education is once more attacked, and the affirmation strongly made that the interests of practical life must no longer be neglected in our educational system. Englishmen must be prepared at school to compete in commerce and in business with their foreign rivals, and for this purpose they will have to renounce in part that training in Latin and Greek which former generations of Englishmen have received. The assertion is made more peremptorily, more impatiently than ever...
...familiarize himself with the language by reading interesting novels. As it is now, one is compelled to waste a great deal of unnecessary time in looking through the various catalogues. The German language abounds in romance that would be more widely read if it were made more accessible. This system of selected German, if put into operation, will be of great advantage to the members of the college, and although its adoption may appear very unimportant its effect on the German department would be correspondingly great...
...would compel the retention of an unwise system of taxation.- Harper's Mag., Jan., 1888, 272; N. A. Rev. 143: 398; Cleveland's Message, Boston Herald, Dec. 7; Blaine's Criticism, Herald, Dec. 8; Sherman's Speech, Herald, Jan. 5; Tariff Reform Speeches, Herald, Dec. 30; Nation...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Now that it looks as if we should have to give up hopes of a swimming bath for the present, a little money should certainly be expended in improving the bathing arrangements at the gymnasium. The present system is distressingly inadequate and ill-managed. It is small encouragement to a man practicing on any of the teams to know that after five o'clock he will find the walls of the bath-room lined four deep with shivering mortals and the hot water all gone. If the college can not afford to enlarge the bath-room-which...