Word: systemized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been announced a the votes will be counted. The purpose of the system of ballotting who is being used is to prevent the off from going to a candidate who recent a small minority of the votes cast...
...hard for an undergraduate to appraise the present tutorial system; but it seems to me that the time has come to put greater emphasis on the general examinations and less emphasis on the course work. The way to do this, probably, is to cut down the required number of courses, especially during the Senior year, while also elaborating the general examinations and building up the tutorial staff. No doubt this is the trend...
...system of scoring by which a par receives one, a birdie two, and an eagle three: Finlay got 11 points, Aronld 9 points, Murphy 10 points and Baldwin 9 points for the eighteen holes. The second eighteen will be played today...
...Dymaxion house is rather a frightening phenomenon. It threatens the architectural aesthetic round on an accumulative tradition, of Roman, Romanesque and Renaissance design. It dispenses with contracting engineers, with servants, with such domestic appendages as laundries, custom built furniture, electric light bulbs, carpets. It threatens the present economic system of centralized control of natural resources. It may mean the dissolution of the suburbs, the population of seemingly inaccessible parts of the earth. Personal independence of drudgery, allowance for a doubled leisure, a more civilized manner of existence, all depend on the Dymaxion House. Mr. Fuller has created the possibility...
...Swarthmore honors plan, the Harvard tutorial system and the Wisconsin Experimental College all impress us as admirable reforms tending to informalize and intensify college training. They show a growing tendency to consider each student as an individual, to adapt the course of study to his needs and interests, to stimulate his curiosity, and to develop his initiative. However, the two former plans are narrowly limited in their application. The real young barbarians are seldom honor students or sons of Harvard. They are "C" students in the state universities and newer colleges. Not until these institutions follow the example of Wisconsin...