Word: systemize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...giving the students a larger scope in the selection of studies, and the number of courses in the different schools have been constantly enlarged. In nearly all the radical changes which have occurred, Harvard has led the way, yet never has this been shown better than in the elective system and the change in the requirements for entrance to the freshman class...
Since the "Wolf's Head," a third senior society in the academic department, erected its handsome hall on Prospect street, several years ago, it has never been questioned that it possessed the finest equipped building connected with Yale university's wide society system; but when the new building of the Stone Trust Company is completed, the "Wolf's Head building will occupy the second place. The new building will be one of the finest, if not the finest in the city. The new cloister will stand on the corner of Hillhouse avenue and Grove street, in the vacant lot nearly...
...lack of fire-escapes on college buildings is a stale subject of animadversion. There are other opportunities of danger equally grave if less palpable; and chief among these is the abominable system of washerwomen which prevails here...
...regard to the finances of the University crew gives evidence of careful consideration on the part of the writer. The items of expense which he brings to notice most assuredly need examination. The boat club is not so much to blame in this matter as the system which has come into use. The trouble in the case undoubtedly lies in a lack of that kind of activity which is so requisite in matters of finance. The business of the treasurers of the boat club has become a routine which is vicious on account of its want of susceptibility...
...life of self-command to be attained? Only through the religious life. And what is the substance of religion? The sum of the religious life, the preacher said, is faith. This does not means, as we so often hear it said, a system of belief, but a loyalty to a person, a soldierly obedience to God. It is only through this loyalty and subordination that our lives receive that power which enables them to exert power over those we seek to command...